A Cross-sectional Study on Awareness and Correlating Factors Towards COVID-19 among Adult Women in Dhaka City Afzalonnisa Department of Food and Nutrition Bangladesh Home Economics College Dhaka, Bangladesh afzalonnisatunji02@gmail.com Md. Riad Hossain Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Barishal, Bangladesh mdriadhossain221995@gmail.com Shajada Akter Khanam Department of Food and Nutrition Bangladesh Home Economics College Dhaka, Bangladesh sajedasharminbhec@gmail.com Md. Farhad Hassan Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Islamic University of Technology Gazipur, Bangladesh farhadhassan@iut-dhaka.edu Abstract—Dhaka, capital of COVID-19 ’s 9th most infected country a day, is appallingly receiving 9,422.1 infected per million to date. To upset this intimidating infected rate, public awareness, and adherence to control measures is a dire need. The objective of this cross-sectional analysis is to gauge the awareness and disclose the associating factors that influence the awareness among the adult women of Dhaka city, based on KAP theory. A self-administrated questionnaire following the national guidelines was developed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices of COVID-19 among respondents, which was disseminated to 139 respondents deploying the quota sampling process. Statistical representation of the baseline data spotted that only 56.11% of the participants own fair knowledge, while 83.44% demonstrates optimistic attitudes towards COVID-19. However, merely 52% of the respondents reported following the precautionary measures against COVID-19. Cross-tabulation on the surveyed data disclose that education, occupation, and monthly family income are significant predictors (p<0.05) of knowledge among the respondents. Significant Odd Ratios (p<0.05) further justifies the reflections of respondents’ knowl- edge on the attitudinal and behavioral statements. This study detected suboptimal awareness and urged for the collective efforts orchestrated by the Ministry of Health to intensify the awareness through recommended channel to reduce associated health risk. Index Terms—COVID-19, Awareness, Practices, Food Habits, Lifestyles. I. I NTRODUCTION COVID-19, the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), has forced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the unprecedented event as a pandemic first time in the history of the 21 st century [1]. The surge of fear of COVID-19 first hits the world in late December of 2019 with the detection of an extraordinary outbreak of respiratory illness among the vendors and dealers of the Hunan seafood market of Wuhan city, China [2], [3]. The causative virus of this infectious disease was provisionally named as 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and subsequently termed as SARS-CoV2, a single-stranded, enveloped RNA virus having crown-like exterior with the presence of spikes at the outer surface of the envelope [4]. β-CoV, among the four genera of coronavirus ( α-CoVs, β-CoVs, γ -CoVs, δ-Covs), is thought to be the pathogenic agent of this disease, which demonstrates 86.9% genomic matching with earlier studied bat SARS-like CoV genome [5], [6]. To date, this dreadful contagious disease has crossed geographical and political borders and reached 216 countries, areas, and territories, resulting in 10,321,689 laboratory-confirmed cases, which lead 5,07,435 individuals to death [7]. Like its’ predecessors SARS and MERS, SARS CoV2 spreads from human to human by means of respirational discharge (sneezing, coughing), skin to skin contact or con- tact with infected surfaces, etc [?]. When a person gets infected, SARS CoV2 remains internalized within the cell of the upper respiratory tract and initiate the replication. After the incubation period, patients may experience mild fever, dry cough, shortness of breathing, and in severe cases, may suffer from Adult Respiratory Disease Syndrome (ARDS) linked with Multiple Organ Dysfunction (MOD) [8]. To date, no specific medicine has been found to fight against this disease, so adherence to preventive control measures is a must. Cleaning hand regularly with soap or alcohol- based rub, wearing mask, following respiratory hygiene, maintaining social distance are the only hopes to minimize 2020 IEEE 8th R10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC) | 978-1-7281-1110-0/20/$31.00 ©2020 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/R10-HTC49770.2020.9357004 © IEEE 2021. This article is free to access and download, along with rights for full text and data mining, re-use and analysis.