Awareness About Home Remedies As A Preventive Measure For Covid-19 - A Questionnaire Based Study

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 is an infectious disease that is caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. The infection prevention and the Control measures are associated with the Supportive Care. Various home remedies and herbal treatments for COVID-19 have been advocated in India. These remedies for covid-19, traditional practices with home made herbal extracts and other valuable herbs has helped people protect themselves from these communicable diseases including covid-19 by boosting of immune system.

Objective: This study aims to assess the awareness about home remedies as a preventive measure for COVID-19.

Materials and Methods: This survey was created in google forms and circulated among the population. Google form results (data) were collected and entered into Microsoft excel.All the statistical analysis was performed by IBM SPSS V23 software, Chi-square tests were done in correlation with gender. With p value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.

Results: Almost every dental student was well aware of home remedies as a preventive method for COVID-19. Association between the gender and their thought on working of home remedies as a preventive method for Covid-19, among females around 34% of them agreed and among males around 52.83% of them agreed and the rest of them disagreed. Chi Square test - p value is  0.569 (P>0.05) and hence it was not significant.

Conclusion: In this article an attempt has been made to review the use of herbal products in a proper manner and to improve the capacity of the immune system. Home remedies can be a preventive measure and we can reduce the fear and cope up with CoronaVirusDisease.