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Knowledge of Medical Students Towards the Re-emergence of Human Monkeypox Virus

Introduction: Declaration of human monkeypox(HMPX) virus as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns among the public andlack of knowledge is a prominent challenge in curbing this outbreak. Therefore, assessment ofknowledge level...

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Autores principales: Raman, Hemalatha, Jamil, Aslinda, Rasheed, Abdur, Abdulrahman Jairoun, Ammar, Lua, Pei Lin, Ibrahim, Umar Idris, Jamshed, Shazia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10632180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37954738
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46761
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author Raman, Hemalatha
Jamil, Aslinda
Rasheed, Abdur
Abdulrahman Jairoun, Ammar
Lua, Pei Lin
Ibrahim, Umar Idris
Jamshed, Shazia
author_facet Raman, Hemalatha
Jamil, Aslinda
Rasheed, Abdur
Abdulrahman Jairoun, Ammar
Lua, Pei Lin
Ibrahim, Umar Idris
Jamshed, Shazia
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description Introduction: Declaration of human monkeypox(HMPX) virus as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns among the public andlack of knowledge is a prominent challenge in curbing this outbreak. Therefore, assessment ofknowledge level on this outbreak among the medical students is also necessary due to the fact that they are the future healthcare practitioners who will be directly involved in the disease management as well as a major source of knowledge dissemination to the public. Aim: The main objective of this study is to assess the knowledge level of medical students at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) regarding the emergence of HMPX. Additionally, the study aims to investigate potential associations between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge levels, while also identifying factors that predict a high level of knowledge in this context.. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among UniSZA undergraduatemedical students from Year 1 to Year 5. A validated questionnaire comprising six socio-demographic variables and 27 knowledge items was shared online. Descriptive statistics, non-parametric tests and multivariate logistic regression were performed using SPSS software. Results: A total of 138 medical students out of 300 participated in this study. Overall, the average knowledge score was 73.95% ±4.43, which indicates that the medical students have moderate knowledge level. Nearly half of them had good knowledge level (n= 68; 49.3%), 43 of them had moderate knowledge level (31.2%), and 27 of them had poor knowledge level (19.6%). There was a significant association between knowledge level and two factors: receiving information on HMPX during their education and seniority (P-value < 0.01 and P-value < 0.05, respectively). Besides, received information on HMPX during their education was a significant predicting factor of good knowledge level (P-value = 0.002). Conclusion: The knowledge level among the medical students was relatively inadequate.
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spelling pubmed-106321802023-11-10 Knowledge of Medical Students Towards the Re-emergence of Human Monkeypox Virus Raman, Hemalatha Jamil, Aslinda Rasheed, Abdur Abdulrahman Jairoun, Ammar Lua, Pei Lin Ibrahim, Umar Idris Jamshed, Shazia Cureus Public Health Introduction: Declaration of human monkeypox(HMPX) virus as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns among the public andlack of knowledge is a prominent challenge in curbing this outbreak. Therefore, assessment ofknowledge level on this outbreak among the medical students is also necessary due to the fact that they are the future healthcare practitioners who will be directly involved in the disease management as well as a major source of knowledge dissemination to the public. Aim: The main objective of this study is to assess the knowledge level of medical students at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) regarding the emergence of HMPX. Additionally, the study aims to investigate potential associations between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge levels, while also identifying factors that predict a high level of knowledge in this context.. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among UniSZA undergraduatemedical students from Year 1 to Year 5. A validated questionnaire comprising six socio-demographic variables and 27 knowledge items was shared online. Descriptive statistics, non-parametric tests and multivariate logistic regression were performed using SPSS software. Results: A total of 138 medical students out of 300 participated in this study. Overall, the average knowledge score was 73.95% ±4.43, which indicates that the medical students have moderate knowledge level. Nearly half of them had good knowledge level (n= 68; 49.3%), 43 of them had moderate knowledge level (31.2%), and 27 of them had poor knowledge level (19.6%). There was a significant association between knowledge level and two factors: receiving information on HMPX during their education and seniority (P-value < 0.01 and P-value < 0.05, respectively). Besides, received information on HMPX during their education was a significant predicting factor of good knowledge level (P-value = 0.002). Conclusion: The knowledge level among the medical students was relatively inadequate. Cureus 2023-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10632180/ /pubmed/37954738 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46761 Text en Copyright © 2023, Raman et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Raman, Hemalatha
Jamil, Aslinda
Rasheed, Abdur
Abdulrahman Jairoun, Ammar
Lua, Pei Lin
Ibrahim, Umar Idris
Jamshed, Shazia
Knowledge of Medical Students Towards the Re-emergence of Human Monkeypox Virus
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title_fullStr Knowledge of Medical Students Towards the Re-emergence of Human Monkeypox Virus
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title_short Knowledge of Medical Students Towards the Re-emergence of Human Monkeypox Virus
title_sort knowledge of medical students towards the re-emergence of human monkeypox virus
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10632180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37954738
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46761
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