Abstract:
The Government of Malaysia have set and implemented various Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) as an effort to mitigate the outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Compliance and cooperation of Malaysian towards SOP are an indicator of the effectiveness of these mitigation measures. The aim of this research was to study the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 among public in Malaysia. A cross-sectional online survey of 419 Malaysian residents was conducted between 1st May 2021 to 10th June 2021. The survey instrument consisted of demographic characteristics, 11 items on knowledge, 10 items on attitude and 9 items on practices. Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, t-tests and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data obtained.
