Background: COVID-19 has rapidly become widespread, resulting in an epidemic throughout China, followed by a pandemic, and increasing number of cases in various countries throughout the world. The aim of this study was to see the knowledge on home quarantine for the prevention of corona virus among the people in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh.
Methods: It was a community based cross sectional study. A total of 436 people who were living in Rajshahi District, Bangladesh collected data during March 01, 2020 to April 08, 2020. Descriptive analysis, chi-square test and logistic regression model were utilized in this study.
Results: The prevalence of knowledge on home quarantine is only 32.6% among the people in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. From the analyses, people of aged ≥26 years were (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 0.537, 95% CI: 0.330-0.874; p<0.012) times less likely to have knowledge on home quarantine compared to the counterpart. Minority people were (AOR=0.414, 95% CI: 0.205-0.838; p<0.014) times less likely to have knowledge on home quarantine compared to Muslim people. Service holders and others occupational people were (AOR=2.072, 95% CI: 1.373-3.127; p<0.001) and (AOR=1.951, 95% CI: 1.303-2.921, p<0.001) times more likely to have knowledge on home quarantine than that of business community population. Joint family members subjects were (AOR=5.980, 95% CI: 2.623-13.635; p<0.001) times more likely to have knowledge on home quarantine than that of their counterpart.
Conclusions: This study found huge gap in home quarantine knowledge among people and Muslim people have more knowledge on home quarantine in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. This study observed some modifiable factors that were influencing home quarantine knowledge. This study also suggested that awareness raising program could play a significant role to boost the knowledge about home quarantine among the people in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. If home quarantine is established, corona virus infection will lessen in Bangladesh.