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Knowledge and attitude towards Mpox among healthcare workers: an intervention study

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Clinical microbiology

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Background: Health care workers lack knowledge about human Mpox, and most are not confident in their abilities to identify and manage cases. The study's objectives are to improve healthcare workers ' knowledge and attitudes regarding Mpox infections and to help them become confident in diagnosis and management. Methods: This study was carried out in two stages. The first phase involved a cross-sectional survey of 206 healthcare workers, utilizing the snowball sampling approach, to evaluate their knowledge and attitudes regarding Mpox using a self-administered questionnaire. The second phase was a pre-posttest study with stratified random sampling method to improve the participants' knowledge and attitude towards Mpox among health care workers. Results: In phase one, 7.3% of the 206 participants had good knowledge with a mean knowledge score of 6.2 ± 8.3., and 89.3% had a positive attitude. In phase two, there was significant improvement in the score of knowledge post intervention immediately [28.6 ± 1.7] and after one month [28.5 ± 1.4] compared with before. The improvement in knowledge level was from 5.7% before to 100% after the intervention. The positive attitude frequency also increased from 42.9% to 100% [p < 0.001]. Conclusion: In conclusion the knowledge and attitude level towards human Mpox infection in our study were considered low. After giving the educational training program, the participants' knowledge and attitude towards Mpox among health care workers was improved.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2024.297060.1991

Keywords

Mpox, Health Care Workers, Knowledge, Attitude, Training program

Authors

First Name

Sally

Last Name

Khattab

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-

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Microbiology and Immunology department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

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sally.maged@med.suez.edu.eg

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Ismailia

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0000-0001-7731-4962

First Name

Nader

Last Name

Nemr

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Endemic and infectious diseases department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Email

nadernemr@med.suez.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

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First Name

Rania

Last Name

Kishk

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M

Affiliation

Microbiology and Immunology department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Email

raniakishk@med.suez.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

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First Name

Hebatalla

Last Name

Aly

MiddleName

M

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Public health, community, occupational and environmental medicine department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

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hebatalla.mohamed@med.suez.edu.eg

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Ismailia

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-

First Name

Nada

Last Name

Nemr

MiddleName

N.

Affiliation

Faculty of dentistry, Sinai University, Kantara branch, Egypt.

Email

n.nemr4257@su.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

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-

First Name

Amira

Last Name

El-Ghazaly

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A

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Microbiology and Immunology department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

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amiraelghazaly@med.suez.edu.eg

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Ismailia

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-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdalla

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O

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Clinical pathology department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.

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mosamaali@med.suez.edu.eg

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Ismailia

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-

First Name

Noha

Last Name

Elsaid

MiddleName

M Abu Bakr

Affiliation

Public health, community, occupational and environmental medicine department, Faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

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noha.abubakr@med.suez.edu.eg

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Ismailia

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5

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4

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51278

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2024-11-01

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2024-06-11

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2024-11-01

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1,273

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1,284

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2682-4132

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2682-4140

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MID_Volume 5_Issue 4_Pages 1273-1284.pdf

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Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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Knowledge and attitude towards Mpox among healthcare workers: an intervention study

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25 Dec 2024