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“Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic
In the course of 2022, an epidemic of monkeypox (MPX) arose worldwide. In order to assess the level of knowledge of the Italian adults regarding the new emerging disease, its prevention and their level of worrying and the acceptance of a possible vaccination, a web questionnaire was spread nationwid...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9696019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36365036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11111285 |
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author | Gallè, Francesca Bianco, Lavinia Da Molin, Giovanna Mancini, Rita Sciacchitano, Salvatore Ferracuti, Stefano Liguori, Giorgio Orsi, Giovanni Battista Napoli, Christian |
author_facet | Gallè, Francesca Bianco, Lavinia Da Molin, Giovanna Mancini, Rita Sciacchitano, Salvatore Ferracuti, Stefano Liguori, Giorgio Orsi, Giovanni Battista Napoli, Christian |
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description | In the course of 2022, an epidemic of monkeypox (MPX) arose worldwide. In order to assess the level of knowledge of the Italian adults regarding the new emerging disease, its prevention and their level of worrying and the acceptance of a possible vaccination, a web questionnaire was spread nationwide. A total of 1352 individuals (mean age 54.5 ± 13.4, 52.4% males) completed the questionnaire. Only 26. 7% of the sample were aware of the burden of the epidemic at the moment of the investigation; 47.1% were not able to identify the transmission route, nor the main symptoms (48.9%); and 54.2% were hesitant toward a possible MPXV vaccination, mainly because of a lack of confident in vaccines (38.5%). A low level of worrying about the disease was registered (mean score 2.3 ± 1.2 on a 5-point scale). In the regression analysis performed considering MPX knowledge as outcome, a lower level of knowledge was associated with higher age (OR 1.378, CI95% 0.998–1.904), working or studying in a nonhealthcare setting (OR 0.046, CI95% 0.033–0.066), being single (OR 0.624, CI95% 0.455–0.856) and having mass media as the main source of information (OR 0.332, CI95% 0.158–0.696). These findings indicate as of the time of this investigation, the communication about the MPXV epidemic was not effective in determining a good level of knowledge about the disease and its transmission among Italian adults. This highlights the need to improve risk communication strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-96960192022-11-26 “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic Gallè, Francesca Bianco, Lavinia Da Molin, Giovanna Mancini, Rita Sciacchitano, Salvatore Ferracuti, Stefano Liguori, Giorgio Orsi, Giovanni Battista Napoli, Christian Pathogens Article In the course of 2022, an epidemic of monkeypox (MPX) arose worldwide. In order to assess the level of knowledge of the Italian adults regarding the new emerging disease, its prevention and their level of worrying and the acceptance of a possible vaccination, a web questionnaire was spread nationwide. A total of 1352 individuals (mean age 54.5 ± 13.4, 52.4% males) completed the questionnaire. Only 26. 7% of the sample were aware of the burden of the epidemic at the moment of the investigation; 47.1% were not able to identify the transmission route, nor the main symptoms (48.9%); and 54.2% were hesitant toward a possible MPXV vaccination, mainly because of a lack of confident in vaccines (38.5%). A low level of worrying about the disease was registered (mean score 2.3 ± 1.2 on a 5-point scale). In the regression analysis performed considering MPX knowledge as outcome, a lower level of knowledge was associated with higher age (OR 1.378, CI95% 0.998–1.904), working or studying in a nonhealthcare setting (OR 0.046, CI95% 0.033–0.066), being single (OR 0.624, CI95% 0.455–0.856) and having mass media as the main source of information (OR 0.332, CI95% 0.158–0.696). These findings indicate as of the time of this investigation, the communication about the MPXV epidemic was not effective in determining a good level of knowledge about the disease and its transmission among Italian adults. This highlights the need to improve risk communication strategies. MDPI 2022-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9696019/ /pubmed/36365036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11111285 Text en © 2022 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gallè, Francesca Bianco, Lavinia Da Molin, Giovanna Mancini, Rita Sciacchitano, Salvatore Ferracuti, Stefano Liguori, Giorgio Orsi, Giovanni Battista Napoli, Christian “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic |
title | “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic |
title_full | “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic |
title_fullStr | “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic |
title_full_unstemmed | “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic |
title_short | “Monkeypox: What Do You Know about That?” Italian Adults’ Awareness of a New Epidemic |
title_sort | “monkeypox: what do you know about that?” italian adults’ awareness of a new epidemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9696019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36365036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11111285 |
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