Journal of Infectious Diseases & Preventive Medicine
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Department of Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Science, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Assessment of Knowledge and Associated Factors towards Prevention of COVID-19 among Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Author(s): Muche Argaw*, Yibeltal Mesfin, Shegaw Yigzaw and Bitew Tefera
  
  Background: COVID-19 is severely affecting the respiratory system caused by a single-stranded novel coronavirus. It is an infectious disease and has different signs and symptoms such as fever, cough fatigue myalgia, and dyspnea. We reported the human case of COVID-19 for the first time in Wuhan city, China, in December 2019. World health organization (WHO) reported as COVID-19 was an outbreak of disease in 2019-20 and pandemic disease. COVID-19 can be transmitted through the respiratory droplet, physical contact, feco-oral, and has an incubation period of 2-14 symptomatic. Methods: We extracted data based on the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines. We accessed studies through electronic web-based search from PubMed, Cochrane Library, Google, and Google Scholar. We did all statistical analyses using STATA version-14 software with a random effec.. View More»
  

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