The Utilization of COVID-19 Preventive Measures and Associated Factors among Government Employees in Nekemte Town, Ethiopia

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Abstract Background: COVID-19 is a pandemic disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Preventing the spread of infection relies on the effective use of COVID – 19 Preventive measures. Therefore, this study is to narrow the information porosity Utilization of COVID-19 preventive measures and associated factors. The objective is to assess the level/proportion of utilization of COVID – 19 Preventive measure and associated factors among Public employees in Nekemte town, Ethiopia. Methods: The study employed an institutional-based Cross-sectional study in Nekemte town, Ethiopia from April to May 2021. Government employees were the source population while the study population was employees working in an office during data gathering. 30 government offices and 394 sampling units were selected randomly. Descriptive and Multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze the utilization of COVID-19 preventive measures and associated factors at adjusted odds ratio 95 % CI and p-value less than 5 %. Results: The overall covid-19 utilization preventive measures practice of the respondents was 148 (37.6%), while the remaining 246(62%) of the respondents were didn’t have good practice of utilize preventive measures of covid-19. Factors like age 21-35 years (AOR= 0.29, 95% CI; 0.13,0.65), degree and above at (AOR=0.12, 95% CI; 0.03-,0.55), married (AOR=2.44 95% CI; 1.09,5.49), USA origin (AOR=3.75, 95% CI; 2.06-6.81), China origin (AOR=8.16, 95% CI; 4.63-14.37) and doing physical exercise (AOR =0.03, 95% CI; 0.02, 0.07) were significantly associated on utilizations of covid-19 prevention measures at p-value <0.05 at CI 95%. Conclusion: Utilizations of covid-19 preventive measure among government employee of Nekemet Town. More importantly, government employee their age, educational status, marital status, origin of covid-19 and physical exercise were associated with Utilizations of covid-19 preventive measure. Keywords: Utilization, factors, Government Employees, Nekemte Ethiopia,