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1) The document is a 2-page critique written by a student named Nikko P. Emping about a research article that uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and preventive practices among university students in Ghana. 2) The critique summarizes the research article, noting that it used SEM to develop a conceptual model showing that knowledge and attitude predict practices to prevent COVID-19 infection. Data was collected through surveys and focus groups of university students. 3) The critique concludes that applying SEM helped reveal a positive correlation between COVID-19 knowledge and attitudes, and that educating students on safety protocols through increasing knowledge can help minimize infection risk and

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Sem (Emping)

1) The document is a 2-page critique written by a student named Nikko P. Emping about a research article that uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and preventive practices among university students in Ghana. 2) The critique summarizes the research article, noting that it used SEM to develop a conceptual model showing that knowledge and attitude predict practices to prevent COVID-19 infection. Data was collected through surveys and focus groups of university students. 3) The critique concludes that applying SEM helped reveal a positive correlation between COVID-19 knowledge and attitudes, and that educating students on safety protocols through increasing knowledge can help minimize infection risk and

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NAME: Nikko P.

Emping PROGRAM AND YEAR: BSA – 3

OFFER CODE & SCHEDULE: 6497 TTH (10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.)

Instructions: Look for research articles that makes use of Structural Equation
Modeling and make a 2-page Critique about said article.

“Structural equation modelling of COVID-19 knowledge and attitude as


determinants of preventive practices among university students in Ghana”

CRITIQUE:

After thoroughly reading the research article concerning the relationship


between COVID-19 knowledge and the respondent’s (University students)
attitude towards it to see if it affects the effectiveness safety protocols being
applied from where they reside at. It is evident that the Coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) is the world’s current greatest problem. The spread of COVID-19
began in Wuhan, a city in China and has currently been transmitted to almost all
countries worldwide. COVID-19 affected persons show symptoms of dry cough,
short breath, myalgia, fatigue and fever, with an advance stage characterized
by septic shock, respiratory distress syndrome, bleeding and coagulation
dysfunction. The effect of the virus has posed a psychological threat to daily
human activities following the declaration of the disease as a public health
emergency of international concern and a pandemic on January 30, 2020, and
March 11, 2020, respectively. As such, with impact that the pandemic has had on
every individual, this study seeks to determine whether the practices performed
by students to avoid COVID-19 infection are influenced by their knowledge and
attitudes using structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques. The conceptual
model developed in the study exhibits the importance of knowledge and attitude
as predictors of practices. In order to gather the necessary data to make good
use of the Structural Equation Modeling, the data used in this study were obtained
through a questionnaire survey and the focus group were university students in
Ghana.

What makes the use of Structural Equation Modeling very useful in this type
of scenario is that it is a widely used multivariate technique for investigating the
direct and indirect effect of relationships between observed and latent variables.
In SEM, an observed variable is a variable that has been directly measured and
contributes to the composition of a latent variable. On the other hand, latent
variables are unobserved variables that cannot be measured directly. The theory
of SEM simplifies complex relationships between variables by utilizing a path
model or analysis for explaining effects resulting from observed and latent
variables The technique clearly determines the relationship between cause-and-
effect variables. The SEM aims to generalize a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
model to assess the relationship between latent variables and how they affect
each other in many ways.

Through the application of SEM, this study revealed that most students
strongly believed that achieving knowledge and well informed updates on
number of reported cases of COVID-19 as well as information about COVID-19
preventive efforts are very relevant to living in their various communities thus
allowing a stronger adherence to the safety protocols being implemented.
Through this research it tells us the significance between the relationships between
the two variables allowing us to determine the right course of action when solving
a certain problem. For example, since the knowledge about COVID-19 and
attitude towards the disease were positively correlated. This indicates that
students’ attitude may improve on the basis of having a good understanding of
their environment and information they receive about the disease. This type of
relationship is reciprocal; thus, being knowledgeable about the disease can
improve an individual’s attitude towards it. From the perspective of the average
person reading this article, we can easily draw the conclusion that through the
application of SEM in understanding COVID-19, Educating students and the
general public on the need to implement safety protocols at all times may help
to minimized the risk of infection and spread. Such education can also help to
explain the myth the public have on the disease.

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