Level of Medical Education on Knowledge Related to Covid-19 Among Medical Students at Al-Azhar Islamic University, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara

Abstract

Background: Medical students are required to keep updating information related to health problems. Covid-19 pandemic increases massively in many countries, day by day. In practice, medical students must pass several levels of education to become a doctor. During these several stages, medical students will be required to seek knowledge following the syllabus from the medical university. During the Covid-19 pandemic, all medical students were sent home so that access go get information related to science was unlimited.

Purpose: This study aims to examine the relationship between variations in the level of education and knowledge related to Covid-19 among medical students.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey study, conducted at the Al-Azhar Islamic Univerity, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. A total of 156 students in semesters 2, 4, and 6 were enrolled using a stratified random sampling technique. The independent variable was the level of education. The dependent variable was knowledge. Data were collected by using a Google Form questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using Chi-Square.

Results: Almost all of the medical students have a good level of knowledge related to Covid-19 (98.08%) of consisted of medical students in level 2 (32.68%), level 4 (29.41%), and level 6 (37.18%). But there was no statistically significant relationship between variations in education level and knowledge related to Covid-19 among the medical students (p=0.055).

Conclusion: The variation in education level is not related to knowledge on Covid-19 in among medical students at the Al-Azhar Islamic University, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara.