TY - JOUR AU - Saleem, Mohd. AU - Alenazi, Fahaad AU - Moursi, Soha Abdallah AU - Ahmed, Hussain Gadelkarim AU - Alam, Md. Jahoor AU - Alzapni, Moath Ibrahim Ayad AU - Jarallah, Ghada Abdullah Saleh AU - Alanazi, Talal Banan AU - Almusawi, Renad Adel Mohammed AU - Alrashidi, Faisal Abdullah AU - Jarallah, Rawan Abdullah Saleh AU - Beg, Mirza Masroor Ali AU - Syed Khaja, Azharuddin Sajid PY - 2020/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Evaluation of Knowledge and Awareness regarding COVID-19 Disease among Medical and Dental students in Saudi Arabia JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 32 IS - 3 SE - Original Article DO - 10.47203/IJCH.2020.v32i03.005 UR - https://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/1576 SP - 486 - 492 AB - <p><strong>Objective</strong>: To evaluate the levels of information regarding the current emerging outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among medical and dental students at universities in Saudi Arabia through an online questionnaire. <strong>Methods</strong>: A detailed structured questionnaire was prepared, containing demographic profiles and questions related to knowledge and awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was emailed to 240 subjects, out of these, 209 responded to all the questions. <strong>Results</strong>: The majority of the respondents were aware of the current and past epidemics of the coronavirus diseases, and they heard about SARS or MERS (89.5%) and the COVID-19 pandemic (94.7%). Internet was the main source of information (63.1%) followed by professors and physicians (24.2%), print media (6.1%), television (4%), and family or friends (2.5%). The majority of respondents received information about COVID-19 from the Ministry of Health (85.6%) and 44.5% of respondents participated in the COVID-19 symposium or conference. Respondents of the college of Medicine were more aware (96.1%) about COVID-19 than respondents of the college of Dentistry (86.2%; p=0.02). <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The study finds a high level of COVID-19 awareness among medical and dental students at KSA universities. However, there is a need to study in a community-level assessment regarding knowledge about COVID-19</p> ER -