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Understanding knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of the public towards the pandemic is an essential part of developing effective preventive strategies.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19) among population in Istanbul.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is a cross-sectional and multi-stage, stratified random sampling based on multi-center population of Istanbul. A total of 5,414 persons were contacted and 4361 participants (80.5%) gave consent. The data were analyzed using descriptive and multiple regression analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      There were significant differences between low education and high educational level with respect to age groups, gender, occupation, income, residence, number of rooms and family members (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001). Responses concerning knowledge of COVID-19 indicated that subjects with high education level were significantly higher regarding knowledge of the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 and methods of detecting COVID-19 respectively. Majority of the participants consider COVID-19 risk is higher than AIDS or Cancer (75.8% of low education vs. 67.2% of high education level (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001). Multivariate stepwise regression analysis revealed that monthly income status (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), appropriate method of detecting COVID-19 (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), occupational status (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), medical mask prevent against COVID-19 (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), eating or contacting wild animals (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), isolation and treatment of people reduce risk (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), isolation 14 days (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P &lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.001), avoid going to crowded places such as train-metro, bus, restaurants and shopping (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P =<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.003), COVID-19 spreads via-respiratory droplets (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P =<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.004), afraid of travel (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P =<\/jats:italic>\n                      0.026) were significantly associated with COVID-19 knowledge.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The current study results revealed that the educational level and occupation especially sedentary are correlated positively with knowledge, attitude and practices. This finding is not surprising since higher education levels and professional status are associated with good KAP in most epidemic diseases including COVID-19. 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