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Evaluation of preventive, supportive and awareness building measures among international students in China in response to COVID-19: a structural equation modeling approach.

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العنوان: Evaluation of preventive, supportive and awareness building measures among international students in China in response to COVID-19: a structural equation modeling approach.
المؤلفون: Sarker T; School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China., Sarkar A; College of economics and management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China., Rabbany MG; College of economics and management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China.; Department of agribusiness and marketing, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, 1207, Bangladesh., Barmon M; Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China., Roy R; College of Natural Resource and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China. ranaroy.aes@sau.ac.bd.; Department of Agroforestry & Environmental Science, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, 3100, Bangladesh. ranaroy.aes@sau.ac.bd., Rahman MA; College of economics and management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China., Hossain KZ; College of economics and management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, People's Republic of China.; Department of agribusiness and marketing, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, 1207, Bangladesh., Hoque F; Department of agribusiness and marketing, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, 1207, Bangladesh., Asaduzzaman M; Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, Frederik Holsts hus, 0450, Oslo, Norway. muhammad.asaduzzaman@medisin.uio.no.
المصدر: Global health research and policy [Glob Health Res Policy] 2021 Mar 13; Vol. 6 (1), pp. 10. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 13.
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101705789 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2397-0642 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 23970642 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Glob Health Res Policy Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: London : BioMed Central, [2016]-
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Awareness* , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice* , Personal Satisfaction*, COVID-19/*psychology , Students/*psychology, Adult ; China ; Female ; Humans ; Internationality ; Least-Squares Analysis ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Models, Theoretical ; Preventive Health Services/statistics & numerical data ; Self-Help Groups/statistics & numerical data ; Young Adult
مستخلص: Background: Education institutions promptly implemented a set of steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among international Chinese students, such as restrictive physical exercise, mask wear, daily health reporting, etc. Success of such behavioral change campaigns largely depends on awareness building, satisfaction and trust on the authorities. The purpose of this current study is to assess the preventive, supportive and awareness-building steps taken during the COVID-19 pandemic for international students in China, that will be useful for planning such a behavioral change campaign in the potential pandemic situation in other parts of the world.
Methods: We conducted an online-based e-questionnaire survey among 467 international students in China through WeChat. The data collection duration was from February 20, 2020 to March 10, 2020 and we focused on their level of awareness, satisfaction, and trust in authorities regarding pandemic measures. Simple bivariate statistics was used to describe the background characteristics of the respondents along with adoption of the partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) as the final model to demonstrate the relationship between the variables.
Results: In our study, the leading group of the respondents were within 31 to 35 years' age group (39.82%), male (61.88%), living single (58.24%) and doctoral level students (39.8%). The preventive and supportive measures taken by students and/or provided by the respective institution or authorities were positively related to students' satisfaction and had an acceptable strength (β = 0.611, t = 9.679, p < 0.001). The trust gained in authorities also showed an acceptable strength (β = 0.381, t = 5.653, p < 0.001) with a positive direction. Again, the personnel awareness building related to both students' satisfaction (β = 0.295, t = 2.719, p < 0.001) and trust gain (β = 0.131, t = 1.986, p < 0.05) in authorities had a positive and acceptable intensity. Therefore, our study clearly demonstrates the great impact of preventive and supportive measures in the development of students' satisfaction (R 2  = 0.507 indicating moderate relationship). The satisfied students possessed a strong influence which eventually helped in building sufficient trust on their institutions (R 2  = 0.797 indicating above substantial relationship).
Conclusions: The worldwide student group is one of the most affected and vulnerable communities in this situation. So, there is a profound ground of research on how different states or authorities handle such situation. In this study, we have depicted the types and magnitude of care taken by Chinese government and educational institutions towards international students to relieve the panic of pandemic situation. Further research and such initiatives should be taken in to consideration for future emerging conditions.
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فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: Awareness building; COVID-19; Epidemic; PLS-SEM; Supportive measures; Trust, international student, modeling
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20210313 Date Completed: 20210325 Latest Revision: 20240331
رمز التحديث: 20240331
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC7954668
DOI: 10.1186/s41256-021-00192-5
PMID: 33712081
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
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تدمد:2397-0642
DOI:10.1186/s41256-021-00192-5