Perceived Risk of Covid-19 And Socio-Demographic Determinant Among Healthcare Workers in Rivers State, Nigeria

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This study investigated the perceived risk of covid-19 and socio-demographic determinant among healthcare workers in Rivers State. Four objectives, and three hypotheses were stated to guide the study. The study adopted the descriptive research design with a population which comprised of all the healthcare workers at the secondary and tertiary health facilities in Rivers State. A sample size of 383 was selected using the multi-stage sampling procedure. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and analysed with the aid of the statistical product for service solution (SPSS) version 23.0, using statistical tools such as percentage, mean, and chi-square test at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that 78.7% felt that their job is putting them at great risk of contracting COVID-19 and 76.1% felt they were unlikely to survive if they get infected with COVID-19. overall, there was a high perceived risk to COVID19 among healthcare workers. The result showed that there was no significant association between age and perceived risk of COVID- 19 (X2-value = 6.76, df = 4, p-value>0.05). There was no significant association between religion and perceived risk of COVID-19 (X2-value = 3.73, df = 2, p-value > 0.05). There was no significant association between cadre of health worker and perceived risk of COVID-19 (X2-value = 3.73, df = 2, p-value > 0.05). It was concluded that healthcare workers had high perceived risk of Covid-19 and the socio-demographic determinants were age, religion and cadre of the workers. It was recommended that, more non-governmental organizations should partner with the government to continually provide all necessary resourced for COVID-19 prevention among healthcare workers.

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