Biosafety, life and COVID-19: Online questionnaire

Abstract

COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 is a disease caused by a highly transmitted virus that led to the development of a pandemic in 2019-2020 causing many deaths and behavioral changes. Due to this high degree of infection risk, it is extremely necessary to disseminate information on biosafety and the correct compliance with social isolation, aiming at the non-transmission of the pathogen. The general objective of this study was to evaluate the population's knowledge about the means of biosafety used to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and emotional state and habits in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. For that, an exploratory-quantitative field research was carried out in a sample of 170 individuals, through a questionnaire via Google Forms. The data collected were evaluated using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software and dependence between variables was assessed using Pearson's Chi-square test. as a result, it was found that the interviewees used mainly fabric masks, the use of alcohol 70% was satisfactory, access to information about COVID-19 is vast and the levels of stress and anxiety were obtained. Therefore, it was concluded that a large part of the sample has knowledge and practices of biosafety, probably due to the intense work of social media, which, however, generated panic in most respondents.