Assessing disparities in medical students' knowledge and attitude about monkeypox: a cross-sectional study of 27 countries across three continents

被引：24

作者：

Abd ElHafeez, Samar ^{[1
]}

Gebreal, Assem ^{[2
]}

Khalil, Mohammad Adnan ^{[3
]}

Youssef, Naglaa ^{[4
,5
]}

Sallam, Malik ^{[6
,7
]}

Elshabrawy, Abdelhamid ^{[8
]}

Abdel-Rahman, Suzan ^{[8
]}

Mahboob, Amira Saad ^{[9
]}

Yazbek, Saja ^{[10
]}

Elbanna, Eman H. ^{[9
]}

Adhyaru, Riddhi ^{[11
]}

Rodoshi, Zarin Nudar ^{[12
]}

Kih, Yap Siew ^{[13
]}

Jawad, Huda ^{[14
]}

Kolotouros, Evangelos ^{[15
]}

Jaworski, Arkadiusz ^{[16
]}

AlQarni, Ghadah ^{[17
]}

Gablan, Mohammad ^{[18
]}

Condurat, Alexandra ^{[19
]}

Elden, Ahmed El-Sayed Said Nour ^{[20
]}

Bennani, Oumayma ^{[21
]}

Rawat, Kamna ^{[22
]}

Ismail, Areeba ^{[23
]}

Al-Hajj, Yasser ^{[24
]}

Elehamer, Nafisa M. K. ^{[25
]}

Nagi, Jasleen ^{[26
]}

Admassu, Habtamu ^{[27
]}

Al Asaad, Saja Hassan ^{[28
]}

Duvuru, Ruthwik ^{[29
]}

Ogunlana, Olaoluwaposi ^{[30
]}

Alosaimi, Bandar ^{[31
]}

Ghazy, Ramy Mohamed ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] Alexandria Univ, High Inst Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol, Alexandria, Egypt

[2] Alexandria Univ, Fac Med, Alexandria, Egypt

[3] King Fahad Med City, Fac Med, Dept Basic Med Sci, Riyadh Hlth Cluster 2, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

[4] Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman Univ, Dept Med Surg Nursing, Coll Nursing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

[5] Cairo Univ, Fac Nursing, Med Surg Nursing Dept, Cairo, Egypt

[6] Univ Jordan, Sch Med, Dept Pathol Microbiol & Forens Med, Amman, Jordan

[7] Jordan Univ Hosp, Dept Clin Labs & Forens Med, Amman, Jordan

[8] Cairo Univ, Fac Grad Studies Stat Res, Dept Biostat & Demog, Cairo, Egypt

[9] Alexandria Univ, High Inst Publ Hlth, Trop Hlth Dept, Alexandria, Egypt

[10] Lebanese Univ, Fac Publ Hlth, Beirut, Lebanon

[11] David Tvildiani Med Univ, Tbilisi, Georgia

[12] Mymensingh Med Coll & Hosp, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

[13] Taylors Univ, Sch Med, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

[14] Univ Bahrain, Coll Hlth & Sport Sci, Manama, Bahrain

[15] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Fac Med, Athens, Greece

[16] Wroclaw Med Univ, Fac Med, Wroclaw, Poland

[17] King Faisal Univ, Coll Med, Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia

[18] Yarmouk Univ, Fac Med, Irbid, Jordan

[19] Univ Med & Pharm Grigore T Popa, Iasi, Romania

[20] Zarqa Univ, Dept Basic Med & Dent Sci, Fac Dent, Zarqa, Jordan

[21] Fac Mohammed VI Med & Pharm, Oujda, Morocco

[22] Govt Doon Med Coll, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India

[23] Jinnah Sindh Med Univ, Dept Med, Karachi, Pakistan

[24] Beirut Arab Univ, Fac Med, Beirut, Lebanon

[25] Univ Khartoum, Fac Publ & Environm Hlth, Khartoum, Sudan

[26] Imperial Coll London, Fac Med, London, England

[27] Addis Ababa Univ CMHS, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

[28] Syrian Private Univ, Fac Med, Damascus, Syria

[29] Mohammed Bin Rashid Univ, Coll Med, Dubai, U Arab Emirates

[30] Univ Ibadan, Coll Med, Ibadan, Nigeria

[31] King Fahad Med City, Res Ctr, Riyadh Hlth Cluster 2, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

来源：

FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH | 2023年 / 11卷

关键词：

monkeypox virus; knowledge; attitude; medical students; validated questionnaire; FEATURES; VIRUS;

D O I：

10.3389/fpubh.2023.1192542

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Background and aimsThe recent monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores the importance of evaluating the knowledge and attitude of medical students toward emerging diseases, given their potential roles as healthcare professionals and sources of public information during outbreaks. This study aimed to assess medical students' knowledge and attitude about Mpox and to identify factors affecting their level of knowledge and attitude in low-income and high-income countries. MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on 11,919 medical students from 27 countries. A newly-developed validated questionnaire was used to collect data on knowledge (14 items), attitude (12 items), and baseline criteria. The relationship between a range of factors with knowledge and attitude was studied using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results46% of the study participants were males; 10.7% were in their sixth year; 54.6% knew about smallpox; 84% received the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine; and 12.5% had training on Mpox. 55.3% had good knowledge of Mpox and 51.7% had a positive attitude towards it. Medical students in their third, fifth, or sixth year high- income countries who obtained information on Mpox from friends, research articles, social media and scientific websites were positive predictors for good knowledge. Conversely, being male or coming from high-income countries showed a negative relation with good knowledge about Mpox. Additionally, a positive attitude was directly influenced by residing in urban areas, being in the fifth year of medical education, having knowledge about smallpox and a history of receiving the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. Receiving information about Mpox from social media or scientific websites and possessing good knowledge about Mpox were also predictors of a positive attitude. On the other hand, being male, employed, or receiving a training program about Mpox were inversely predicting positive attitude about Mpox. ConclusionThere were differences in knowledge and attitude towards Mpox between medical students in low and high-income countries, emphasizing the need for incorporating epidemiology of re-emerging diseases like Mpox into the medical curriculum to improve disease prevention and control.

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