Adoption level of the COVID-19 Safety health protocols among CLSU's Social Science students
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Date
2023
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Jaztine Jay C. Sambrano
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The COVI-19 pandemic has had far-reaching economic and public health implications worlwide (Cennimo & Stuart, 2021). Governments and organizations have implemented various measures to prevent the spread of the virus and reduce mortality rates, including wearing masks, practicing hand hygiene, maintaining social distance, and cancelling public events (WHO, 2022). The Philippines is one of the countries severely impacted by the pandemic, with a significant number of cases and deaths (Caldwell et al., 2021; DOH, 2022).
The general objective of this study was to identify the level of adoption of COVID-19 safety health protocols among the CLSU's Social Sciences students. Specifically, the study aimed to (1) determine the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of sex, religion, and residence; (2) identify the communication attributes of the respondents, including communication media ownership, source of information, content of information received, utilization of information received, and benefits from the information received; (3) determine the frequency of exposure to information sources on COVID-19 safety health protocols among the respondents; (4) determine the association between socio-demographic characteristic, communication characteristics, frequency of exposure to information sources to the level of adoption of COVID-19 safety health protocols among the respondents.
The findings showed that the majority of the students were Roman Catholic and lived in their residence 5 kilometers away from the city/municipal proper. The majority of respondents had access to newspapers and mobile devices were their main means of consuming broadcast material. Social media, particularly Facebook, was widely used for information dissemination. The main source of information for COVID-19 safety health protocols was from newspapers for print materials and mobile phones for broadcast materials. Interpersonal communication with family or friends was also a main source of information. The majority of the information received was basic knowledge about COVID-19 safety and health protocols and the respondents shared and followed the information received, which increased their knowledge and awareness. The study also found that most respondents were often exposed to various information sources, such as social media and interpersonal communication, while exposure to print materials, particularly newspapers, was seldom. Mobile phones had the highest exposure among broadcast materials and family or relatives had the highest interactions among interpersonal communication.
Among the CLSU's Social Sciences students, the study found out that they were moderately adopted on the COVID-19 safety health protocols issued by the Department of Health and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of emerging infectious diseases. The study found a significant relationship between sex and and the adoption level of COVID-19 safety health protocols among respondents, while religion and type of community had no impact. The ownership of television was the only factor affecting the adoption level and the source of information, including printed materials in newspapers and leaflets, social media platforms like twitter and Instagram, and interpersonal communication with health workers, played a role in the adoption as well. The content of the information such as basic knowledge of the protocols and their benefits and the use of information, such as sharing and following it, also had an impact of the adoption level. The study showed that the frequency of exposure to various information sources, including newspapers, television, radio, mobile phones, social media platforms and interpersonal communication, impacted the adoption level of COVID-19 safety protocols among the respondents. Thus the three hypotheses are rejected. Thus the three hypotheses are rejected.