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Monkeypox Post-COVID-19: Knowledge, Worrying, and Vaccine Adoption in the Arabic General Population

Background: The outbreak of monkeypox was declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization on 23 July 2022. There have been 60,000 cases reported worldwide, most of which are in places where monkeypox has never been seen due to the travel of people who have the virus. This...

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Autores principales: Swed, Sarya, Bohsas, Haidara, Alibrahim, Hidar, Rakab, Amine, Hafez, Wael, Sawaf, Bisher, Amir, Rais Mohammed, Motawei, Ahmed Sallam, Aljabali, Ahmed, Shoib, Sheikh, Atef Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim, Ismail, Ahmad Almashaqbeh, Sondos Hussein, Qaid Shaddad, Ebrahim Ahmed, Alqaisi, Maryam, Abdelrahman, Ahmed, Fathey, Sherihan, Hurlemann, René, Elsayed, Mohamed E. G., Barboza, Joshuan J., Mohanty, Aroop, Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J., Padhi, Bijaya Kumar, Sah, Ranjit
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040759
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author Swed, Sarya
Bohsas, Haidara
Alibrahim, Hidar
Rakab, Amine
Hafez, Wael
Sawaf, Bisher
Amir, Rais Mohammed
Motawei, Ahmed Sallam
Aljabali, Ahmed
Shoib, Sheikh
Atef Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim, Ismail
Ahmad Almashaqbeh, Sondos Hussein
Qaid Shaddad, Ebrahim Ahmed
Alqaisi, Maryam
Abdelrahman, Ahmed
Fathey, Sherihan
Hurlemann, René
Elsayed, Mohamed E. G.
Barboza, Joshuan J.
Mohanty, Aroop
Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
Padhi, Bijaya Kumar
Sah, Ranjit
author_facet Swed, Sarya
Bohsas, Haidara
Alibrahim, Hidar
Rakab, Amine
Hafez, Wael
Sawaf, Bisher
Amir, Rais Mohammed
Motawei, Ahmed Sallam
Aljabali, Ahmed
Shoib, Sheikh
Atef Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim, Ismail
Ahmad Almashaqbeh, Sondos Hussein
Qaid Shaddad, Ebrahim Ahmed
Alqaisi, Maryam
Abdelrahman, Ahmed
Fathey, Sherihan
Hurlemann, René
Elsayed, Mohamed E. G.
Barboza, Joshuan J.
Mohanty, Aroop
Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
Padhi, Bijaya Kumar
Sah, Ranjit
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description Background: The outbreak of monkeypox was declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization on 23 July 2022. There have been 60,000 cases reported worldwide, most of which are in places where monkeypox has never been seen due to the travel of people who have the virus. This research aims to evaluate the general Arabic population in regard to the monkeypox disease, fears, and vaccine adoption after the WHO proclaimed a monkeypox epidemic and to compare these attitudes to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in some Arabic countries (Syria, Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, Sudan, Algeria, and Iraq) between 18 August and 7 September 2022. The inclusion criteria were the general public residing in Arabic nations and being older than 18. This questionnaire has 32 questions separated into three sections: sociodemographic variables, prior COVID-19 exposure, and COVID-19 vaccination history. The second portion assesses the knowledge and anxieties about monkeypox, while the third section includes the generalized anxiety disorder (GAD7) scale. Logistic regression analyses were performed to compute the adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and their confidence intervals (95%CI) using STATA (version 17.0). Results: A total of 3665 respondents from 17 Arabic countries were involved in this study. Almost two-thirds (n = 2427, 66.2%) of the participants expressed more worry about COVID-19 than monkeypox diseases. Regarding the major cause for concern about monkeypox, 39.5% of participants attributed their anxiety to the fear that they or a member of their family may contract the illness, while 38.4% were concerned about monkeypox becoming another worldwide pandemic. According to the GAD 7 score, 71.7% of the respondents showed very low anxiety toward monkeypox and 43.8% of the participants scored poor levels of knowledge about monkeypox disease. Participants with previous COVID-19 infection showed a 1.206 times greater acceptance to receive the monkeypox vaccine than those with no previous infection. A 3.097 times higher concern for monkeypox than COVID-19 was shown by the participants who perceived monkeypox as dangerous and virulent than those who did not. Participants who have a chronic disease (aOR: 1.32; 95%CI: 1.09–1.60); participants worried about monkeypox (aOR: 1.21; 95%CI: 1.04–1.40), and perceived monkeypox as a dangerous and virulent disease (aOR: 2.25; 95%CI: 1.92–2.65); and excellent knowledge level (aOR: 2.28; 95%CI: 1.79–2.90) have emerged as significant predictors. Conclusions: Our study reported that three-fourths of the participants were more concerned about COVID-19 than monkeypox disease. In addition, most of the participants have inadequate levels of knowledge regarding monkeypox disease. Hence, immediate action should be taken to address this problem. Consequently, learning about monkeypox and spreading information about its prevention is crucial.
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spelling pubmed-101411742023-04-29 Monkeypox Post-COVID-19: Knowledge, Worrying, and Vaccine Adoption in the Arabic General Population Swed, Sarya Bohsas, Haidara Alibrahim, Hidar Rakab, Amine Hafez, Wael Sawaf, Bisher Amir, Rais Mohammed Motawei, Ahmed Sallam Aljabali, Ahmed Shoib, Sheikh Atef Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim, Ismail Ahmad Almashaqbeh, Sondos Hussein Qaid Shaddad, Ebrahim Ahmed Alqaisi, Maryam Abdelrahman, Ahmed Fathey, Sherihan Hurlemann, René Elsayed, Mohamed E. G. Barboza, Joshuan J. Mohanty, Aroop Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J. Padhi, Bijaya Kumar Sah, Ranjit Vaccines (Basel) Article Background: The outbreak of monkeypox was declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization on 23 July 2022. There have been 60,000 cases reported worldwide, most of which are in places where monkeypox has never been seen due to the travel of people who have the virus. This research aims to evaluate the general Arabic population in regard to the monkeypox disease, fears, and vaccine adoption after the WHO proclaimed a monkeypox epidemic and to compare these attitudes to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in some Arabic countries (Syria, Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, Sudan, Algeria, and Iraq) between 18 August and 7 September 2022. The inclusion criteria were the general public residing in Arabic nations and being older than 18. This questionnaire has 32 questions separated into three sections: sociodemographic variables, prior COVID-19 exposure, and COVID-19 vaccination history. The second portion assesses the knowledge and anxieties about monkeypox, while the third section includes the generalized anxiety disorder (GAD7) scale. Logistic regression analyses were performed to compute the adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and their confidence intervals (95%CI) using STATA (version 17.0). Results: A total of 3665 respondents from 17 Arabic countries were involved in this study. Almost two-thirds (n = 2427, 66.2%) of the participants expressed more worry about COVID-19 than monkeypox diseases. Regarding the major cause for concern about monkeypox, 39.5% of participants attributed their anxiety to the fear that they or a member of their family may contract the illness, while 38.4% were concerned about monkeypox becoming another worldwide pandemic. According to the GAD 7 score, 71.7% of the respondents showed very low anxiety toward monkeypox and 43.8% of the participants scored poor levels of knowledge about monkeypox disease. Participants with previous COVID-19 infection showed a 1.206 times greater acceptance to receive the monkeypox vaccine than those with no previous infection. A 3.097 times higher concern for monkeypox than COVID-19 was shown by the participants who perceived monkeypox as dangerous and virulent than those who did not. Participants who have a chronic disease (aOR: 1.32; 95%CI: 1.09–1.60); participants worried about monkeypox (aOR: 1.21; 95%CI: 1.04–1.40), and perceived monkeypox as a dangerous and virulent disease (aOR: 2.25; 95%CI: 1.92–2.65); and excellent knowledge level (aOR: 2.28; 95%CI: 1.79–2.90) have emerged as significant predictors. Conclusions: Our study reported that three-fourths of the participants were more concerned about COVID-19 than monkeypox disease. In addition, most of the participants have inadequate levels of knowledge regarding monkeypox disease. Hence, immediate action should be taken to address this problem. Consequently, learning about monkeypox and spreading information about its prevention is crucial. MDPI 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10141174/ /pubmed/37112671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040759 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Swed, Sarya
Bohsas, Haidara
Alibrahim, Hidar
Rakab, Amine
Hafez, Wael
Sawaf, Bisher
Amir, Rais Mohammed
Motawei, Ahmed Sallam
Aljabali, Ahmed
Shoib, Sheikh
Atef Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim, Ismail
Ahmad Almashaqbeh, Sondos Hussein
Qaid Shaddad, Ebrahim Ahmed
Alqaisi, Maryam
Abdelrahman, Ahmed
Fathey, Sherihan
Hurlemann, René
Elsayed, Mohamed E. G.
Barboza, Joshuan J.
Mohanty, Aroop
Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
Padhi, Bijaya Kumar
Sah, Ranjit
Monkeypox Post-COVID-19: Knowledge, Worrying, and Vaccine Adoption in the Arabic General Population
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title_full_unstemmed Monkeypox Post-COVID-19: Knowledge, Worrying, and Vaccine Adoption in the Arabic General Population
title_short Monkeypox Post-COVID-19: Knowledge, Worrying, and Vaccine Adoption in the Arabic General Population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040759
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