medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.11.20127936; this version posted June 14, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license . Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Knowledge, attitudes, practices (KAP) and misconceptions in the general population of Katsina State, Nigeria Murtala Bindawa Isah1*, Mahmud Abdulsalam1, Abubakar Bello1, Muawiyya Idris Ibrahim1, Aminu Usman1, Abdullahi Nasir1, Bashir Abdulkadir1, Ahmed Rufai Usman1, Kabir Matazu Ibrahim1, Aminu Sani2, Ma’awuya Aliu2, Shema’u Abba Kabir3, Abdullahi Shuaibu4 and Shafique Sani Nass5 1Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Katsina, Nigeria 2Katsina State Ministry of Health, Katsina State, Nigeria 3Katsina State Primary Healthcare Agency, Katsina State, Nigeria 4National Polio Emergency Operations Center, Abuja, Nigeria 5World Health Organization, North-west Zonal Office, Nigeria. *Correspondence to: Dr Murtala B. Isah, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Katsina, PMB 2218, Katsina State, Nigeria. Email address:
[email protected]. Phone No: +2348034651034 Abstract Introduction Over six million cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) were reported globally by the second quarter of 2020. The various forms of interventions and measures adopted to control the disease affected people’s social and behavioural practices. Aim This study aims to investigate COVID-19 related knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) as well as misconceptions in Katsina state, one of the largest epicentres of the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria.