摘要：Universities are important centers of education life and academicians play a key role in universities. With this study, it was aimed to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and behavior of academic staff towards COVID-19.This descriptive study was conducted with academic staff working at a state university. Ethics committee approval was obtained from Bingöl University for the research. Online data-based survey method was used as data collection method. In the study, a questionnaire form developed by Srichan et al. (2020) to determine the knowledge, attitude and behavior towards COVID-19 was used. Participation rate in the survey was 49.8%, and the research was completed with 268 academicians. 53.7% of the participants are male, 41% are between the ages of 34-43, 71.6% are married, 95.5% live in the city, 43.3% have a monthly income of 9001 TL and above. It was found that 32.8% were lecturers, 49.6% had a family of 1-3 members. The age range was (25-61) and the mean age was found to be 38.30 ± 7.69. It was found that 70.1% of the participants were worried about infecting their family due to entering collective environments for work, and 24.6% had death anxiety due to coronavirus. It was found that 83.6% of the academicians had medium level knowledge, 82.1% had a high level of attitude and 88.1% had a high level of behavior. There is a significant positive correlation between knowledge, attitude and behavior towards COVID-19. A significant difference was found in the knowledge level of the participants, the number of members in the family, their attitudes according to their gender and marital status, and their behaviors according to gender, age and status (p <0.05). Academicians' knowledge, attitude and behavior towards COVID-19 are at a sufficient level. It is considered that it would be beneficial to provide academicians with information that will improve their knowledge, attitude and behavior towards COVID-19.
