Rapid assessment evidence of changes due to COVID 19 awareness radio announcement. A case on five primary school children in West Gondar zone Ethiopia

Project Report from the year 2021 in the subject Communications - Research, Studies, Enquiries, grade: 3.70, , language: English, abstract: This research presents the result of assessment on the conditions of the implementation of COVID-19 prevention audio message delivery in five primary schools and solutions for effective utilization of the approach in the future. COVID-19 directly as well as indirectly has impacted students. In primary schools delivery of accurate information about the disease, its spread, preventive measures with appropriate communication channels with supportive measures for school children is essential to combat the outbreak.

The objective of the evaluation was after media intervention to assess from which source students gained clear and trusted information and their level of re-disseminating the messages they gained to other people; identify misconceptions that possibly counter act the initiative and suggest advice for future school media interventions. Purposive sampling technique was employed to collect data. The tools were closed and open ended questionnaire, interview and observation. F