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Abstract
Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious illness which broke out during the winter of 2019. It is a disease caused by a newly emerging novel coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) that appeared in late 2019. Its spread was reported to be very rapid beyond control thereby bringing about different measures to curb its spread and to date many are still skeptical about its reality creating a gap in the preventive measure’s adherence. This study examined attitude of health workers in health center’s during and after covid 19 outbreak in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Three research questions as well as two null hypotheses were formulated by the researcher to guide this study. A descriptive research survey design was adopted for this study using a proportional sampling technique to select 130 respondents to participate in this study and ethical approval was followed accordingly. The instrument for data collection was a self-structured questionnaire. Out of the 130 questionnaires distributed to the respondents, 12 were completely filled, returned, analyzed, and presented in frequency count tables and percentages.
Findings revealed that there is a good attitude of health workers in health center’s during and after Covid 19 outbreak as 8(6.3%) and 83(65.9%) of the respondents agreed and strongly agreed that they avoid touching anything at the health facility with bare hand during the Covid 19 outbreak. There is also good behaviors of health workers towards Covid 19 safety precautions practice as 77(61.1%) and 14(11.1%) of the respondents agreed and strongly agreed that they use face mask while going to work and while attending to patients in the hospital. Also, several factors influences Covid 19 safety precautions practice among health workers as 97(77.0%) of respondents affirmed that lack of provision of use face mask at the hospital prevent you from using it during the Covid 19 outbreak,
In conclusion, the respondents have good attitudes and behaviors during and after covid 19 outbreak. It is thus recommended that Government authorities (Federal, State, and Local Government level) stake holders, non-governmental organization, religious organization and policy maker should ensure provision of appropriate Covid-19 preventive measure facilities and personal protective equipment’s to support health workers are provided.