Survey data of COVID-19-related knowledge, attitude, and practices among indonesian undergraduate students

The dataset presented in this paper is an examination of COVID-19-related knowledge, attitude, and practice among Indonesian undergraduate students. The data were collected during first month of college or university closure due to COVID-19 through a survey distributed via an online questionnaire, assessing sociodemographic information (6 items), knowledge (18 items), attitude (6 item), and practice (12 items), from 27th April and 2nd May 2020, gathering a total of 6,249 responses. A combination of purposive and snowball techniques helped to select the respondents via Whatsapp from more than ten universities in Indonesia. The survey data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data will assist in preventing and curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the university and can assist with planning for educational interventions for students’ awareness.


a b s t r a c t
The dataset presented in this paper is an examination of COVID-19-related knowledge, attitude, and practice among Indonesian undergraduate students. The data were collected during first month of college or university closure due to COVID-19 through a survey distributed via an online questionnaire, assessing sociodemographic information (6 items), knowledge (18 items), attitude (6 item), and practice (12 items), from 27 th April and 2 nd May 2020, gathering a total of 6,249 responses. A combination of purposive and snowball techniques helped to select the respondents via Whatsapp from more than ten universities in Indonesia. The survey data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data will assist in preventing and curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the university and can assist with planning for educational interventions for students' awareness.
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( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) Specifications Table   Subject Public health Specific subject area Health psychology, Social psychology Type of data Primary data, Tables How data were acquired Data was gathered using an online survey platform (google forms). The questionnaire is provided as a supplementary file Data format Raw, Analyzed, Filtered (descriptive and inferential statistics) Parameters for data collection The survey data was obtained from 6249 respondents of Indonesian undergraduate students with internet access. Only students who have department and faculty approval can access the survey. Description of data collection The data was conducted through an online questionnaire, which was delivered to undergraduate students in Indonesia using the combination of purposive and snowball techniques helped to select the respondents via Whatsapp. Value of the data • The data are important because this is the first survey that involved thousands of participants. So far, this survey involved the largest number of participants that explore knowledge, attitude, and practice about COVID-19 among Indonesian undergraduate students. • The data will be useful for reseachers who want to compare with similar studies on COVID-19 related knowledge, attitude, and practice from other countries around the world, especially among undergraduate students or contributing to meta-analysis in the future. • The data will be valuable to reseachers who want examine relationship between sociodemographics, knowledge, attitude, and practice of COVID-19 among undegraduate students. • The details of the analyzed data are beneficial to enhancing institutional leaders' and policymakers's awareness of the level of students' knowledge, attitude, and practice, so institution may better prepared for preventing and curbing the spread of COVID-19 in their environment and assist with planning for educational interventions for students' awareness.

Data description
The data set provides an insighful information based on survey data on knowledge, attitude, and practice among Indonesian undegraduate students about COVID-19. The survey involved 6,249 Indonesian undergraduate students during first month of college or university closure due to COVID-19. The data include four major groups of variable: (A) Individual demographics, including gender, age, place of current residence, spent year in university, majors of education, and occupation. (B) 18 items measured their COVID-19 related knowledge including etiology, symptoms, risk groups, transmission, and prevention. Each question of the knowledge section was rated in such a way that a score of one was given to correct responses and a score of zero was used for incorrect. (C) Six items measured their COVID-19 related attitude including reception of information, social interaction, and self motivation. A three-point Likert scale was utilized from 1 (disagree) to 3 (agree) with a neutral midpoint (point 2). (D) 12 items measured their COVID-19 related practice including compliance, prevention efforts, and a clean and healthy lifestyle. A three-point Likert scale was utilized from 1 (never) to 3 (always). The questionnaire is provided as a supplementary file. Demographic characteristics of respondents are presented in Table 1 .
The detailed assessments of responses on COVID-19-related knowledge, attitude, and practice by undergraduate students of Indonesian are depicted in Table 2 -4 . The detailed description of relationship between sociodemographics, knowledge, attitude, and practice are depicted in Table 5 -9 .

Experimental design, materials and methods
The research adopted a descriptive online cross-sectional survey design to evaluate COVID-19related knowledge, attitude, and practice among Indonesian undegraduate students. The dataset included thousands responses collected between 27 th April and 2 nd May 2020 from more than ten universities in Indonesia. Due to the universities were closed at the time of data collection, it was not feasible to conduct population-based survey. The main researchers opted to use What-sApp Messenger for enrolling potential participants. A questionnaire was designed and executed using google forms and link generated was shared on WhatsApp groups of faculties. Link was also shared personally to other faculties. Faculties were required to complete the consent from before forwarding the URL to their students. The delivered link to undergraduate students using the combination of purposive and snowball techniques helped to select the respondents. The inclusion criteria were (1) undergraduate students, (2) healthy without COVID-19, and (3) never suffered from COVID-19. A total of 6,252 responses were received, but three responses were eliminated because were met criteria. Finally, 6,249 responses were used for further analysis.
The original items of the Questionnaire were generated from the results of literature reviews according to previous study towards COVID-19 [1][2][3] , and MERS-SARS [ 4 , 5 ], and the explanation about COVID-19 informed in the WHO's website [6] . After translating to indonesian with applied the combined techniques [7] , the questionnaire was sent to three infectious disease specialists at Muhammadiyah hospital to get their opinions regarding its simplicity, relevance, clarity, and The individual demographics are the potential sources related students' knowledge, attitude, and practices. The respondents' demographics, COVID-19-related knowledge, attitude, and practice were analyzed using frequencies and percentages. Pearson's rank correlation analyses to understand the relationships between knowledge, attitude, and practice. Independent samples t -test and one-way ANOVA were performed in assessing any difference in mean score by de-  Table 5 Correlation between scores of knowledge, attitude, and practice.  mographic characteristics. Chi-square tests were applied to find difference in groups (good vs poor) by demographic characteristics. A binary logistic regression analysis was applied as odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) to find possible determinants of good knowledge, attitude, and practice. The hierarchical (orsequential) multiple regression was conducted to determine whether the variance explained increased significantly with the addition of all variable. A p-value of less than 0.05 were considered significant in all tests.

Declaration of Competing Interest
The research project did not receive financial support from any institutions. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Ethics Statement
Ethical approval was obtained from the Department of Biology Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang. Respondents' participation was completely consensual, anonymous, and voluntary. The collecting data was conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki.