Study on Knowledge and Perception towards COVID-19 Disease among 3rd Year Medical Students of Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted to determine the level of knowledge & perception towards COVID-19 disease among 3rd year medical students of Sir Salimullah Medical College & Mitford Hospital. This study was done in the period of September, 2021 to April, 2022. Our sample size was 152, and data was collected over the telephone with a semi-structured questionnaire. Most of the respondents (61.18%) were female, majority (86.18%) were Muslim. Among them most of the respondents 43(27.04%) were from Khulna division. From our study, we found that all of the students (100%) stated that they heard about covid, mild covid patients can recover at home & hand hygiene, social distancing help in prevention of COVID. Among them most of the students (43.42%) heard about the ongoing pandemic from News & Social Media. Among the respondents almost all of them (99.34%) knew about the incubation period of COVID-19, which is 2-14 days. Most of them (71.02%) knew about the symptoms of COVID-19 are Fever, Headache, Dry Cough, Sore Throat, Tiredness. It is considered that the findings of the study will serve as a useful basis for further research and planning in covid-19 disease prevention.