Assessment of knowledge,practice and barrier in use of facemask among university students

Aim: to find out the knowledge,practice and barriers among university students. methodology: a cross sectional descriptive study conducted on superior university lahore. result: study was conducted on 60 students; students who do not use facemask during period of infection 55%,majority of them were male 64.7%. statistically significant association found in use facemask and people who have knowledge about benefit of using facemask. most of source of knowledge of using facemask is through electronic media 46%,which is statistically significant associated (p<0.05). barrier in use of facemask is irritation 43% and lack of knowledge about benefit is 23%. conclusion: facemask is necessary to implement for prevention of respiratory infections in mass gathering no matter how much science advanced until we do not know the barrier of people mind,attitude and availability we cannot succeed in promoting health education.