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Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Monkeypox outbreaks in non-endemic countries emphasize the importance of being prepared to prevent its progression to a pandemic. To effectively control monkeypox, healthcare providers must have sufficient knowledge and good attitudes and practices to limit its spread. We initiated this...

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Autores principales: Sobaikhi, Nasser H., Alshahrani, Najim Z., Hazazi, Rakan S., Al-Musawa, Hafiz I., Jarram, Raed E., Alabah, Amjad E., Haqawi, Nawaf F., Munhish, Fadi A., Shajeri, Mohammed A., Matari, Mohammed H., Salami, Riyadh M., Hobani, Alhassan H., Yahya, Najla A., Alhazmi, Abdulaziz H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10297242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37366869
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020081
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author Sobaikhi, Nasser H.
Alshahrani, Najim Z.
Hazazi, Rakan S.
Al-Musawa, Hafiz I.
Jarram, Raed E.
Alabah, Amjad E.
Haqawi, Nawaf F.
Munhish, Fadi A.
Shajeri, Mohammed A.
Matari, Mohammed H.
Salami, Riyadh M.
Hobani, Alhassan H.
Yahya, Najla A.
Alhazmi, Abdulaziz H.
author_facet Sobaikhi, Nasser H.
Alshahrani, Najim Z.
Hazazi, Rakan S.
Al-Musawa, Hafiz I.
Jarram, Raed E.
Alabah, Amjad E.
Haqawi, Nawaf F.
Munhish, Fadi A.
Shajeri, Mohammed A.
Matari, Mohammed H.
Salami, Riyadh M.
Hobani, Alhassan H.
Yahya, Najla A.
Alhazmi, Abdulaziz H.
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description Background: Monkeypox outbreaks in non-endemic countries emphasize the importance of being prepared to prevent its progression to a pandemic. To effectively control monkeypox, healthcare providers must have sufficient knowledge and good attitudes and practices to limit its spread. We initiated this project to assess the factors associated with health workers’ knowledge and attitude toward monkeypox in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Methods: We included 398 eligible health workers working at various health facilities. Data was collected using an online survey, and participants had an opportunity to consent. We conducted descriptive statistics for all variables and used chi-square statistics, t-test, and multivariate analysis to establish the association between health workers’ demographic characteristics and knowledge of monkeypox disease. Results: The mean age was 30.93 ± 8.25 years for the included participants, and most of them were between 22 and 29 years, male, single, nurses, working in government hospitals, and had worked for at least five years. The chi-square and t-test showed that the participants’ knowledge level was significantly related to age, marital status, job title, and medical practice. Most of the participants had low knowledge and good attitudes toward monkeypox prevention measures. Multivariate analysis showed that higher knowledge was associated with younger age after controlling all other significant bivariate relationships between knowledge and demographics. Conclusions: This study found low knowledge levels and high good attitude levels of monkeypox among the participants. As such, there is a need to support health workers in understanding monkeypox epidemiology, prevention, and treatment. Therefore, Saudi Arabia will be making significant strides to being well prepared and ready to handle future monkeypox outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-102972422023-06-28 Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study Sobaikhi, Nasser H. Alshahrani, Najim Z. Hazazi, Rakan S. Al-Musawa, Hafiz I. Jarram, Raed E. Alabah, Amjad E. Haqawi, Nawaf F. Munhish, Fadi A. Shajeri, Mohammed A. Matari, Mohammed H. Salami, Riyadh M. Hobani, Alhassan H. Yahya, Najla A. Alhazmi, Abdulaziz H. Diseases Article Background: Monkeypox outbreaks in non-endemic countries emphasize the importance of being prepared to prevent its progression to a pandemic. To effectively control monkeypox, healthcare providers must have sufficient knowledge and good attitudes and practices to limit its spread. We initiated this project to assess the factors associated with health workers’ knowledge and attitude toward monkeypox in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Methods: We included 398 eligible health workers working at various health facilities. Data was collected using an online survey, and participants had an opportunity to consent. We conducted descriptive statistics for all variables and used chi-square statistics, t-test, and multivariate analysis to establish the association between health workers’ demographic characteristics and knowledge of monkeypox disease. Results: The mean age was 30.93 ± 8.25 years for the included participants, and most of them were between 22 and 29 years, male, single, nurses, working in government hospitals, and had worked for at least five years. The chi-square and t-test showed that the participants’ knowledge level was significantly related to age, marital status, job title, and medical practice. Most of the participants had low knowledge and good attitudes toward monkeypox prevention measures. Multivariate analysis showed that higher knowledge was associated with younger age after controlling all other significant bivariate relationships between knowledge and demographics. Conclusions: This study found low knowledge levels and high good attitude levels of monkeypox among the participants. As such, there is a need to support health workers in understanding monkeypox epidemiology, prevention, and treatment. Therefore, Saudi Arabia will be making significant strides to being well prepared and ready to handle future monkeypox outbreaks. MDPI 2023-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10297242/ /pubmed/37366869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020081 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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Alshahrani, Najim Z.
Hazazi, Rakan S.
Al-Musawa, Hafiz I.
Jarram, Raed E.
Alabah, Amjad E.
Haqawi, Nawaf F.
Munhish, Fadi A.
Shajeri, Mohammed A.
Matari, Mohammed H.
Salami, Riyadh M.
Hobani, Alhassan H.
Yahya, Najla A.
Alhazmi, Abdulaziz H.
Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Health Workers’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Monkeypox in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort health workers’ knowledge and attitude towards monkeypox in southwestern saudi arabia: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10297242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37366869
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020081
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