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. 2023 May 9:11:1153136.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1153136. eCollection 2023.

A multinational cross-sectional study on the awareness and concerns of healthcare providers toward monkeypox and the promotion of the monkeypox vaccination

Sarya Swed  1 , Hidar Alibrahim  1 , Haidara Bohsas  1 , Nagham Jawish  2 , Mohammed Amir Rais  3 , Mohamad Nour Nasif  1 , Wael Hafez  4   5 , Bisher Sawaf  6 , Ahmed Abdelrahman  7 , Sherihan Fathey  8 , Ismail Atef Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim  9 , Sondos Hussein Ahmad Almashaqbeh  10 , Razan Mohammad Yousef Aljawarneh  11 , Amine Rakab  12 , Emad Hassan Hassan El-Shafei  13 , Rene Hurlemann  14   15   16 , Mohamed E G Elsayed  14   17 ; Data Collection Group
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A multinational cross-sectional study on the awareness and concerns of healthcare providers toward monkeypox and the promotion of the monkeypox vaccination

Sarya Swed et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: The aim of this study was to explore potential healthcare workers' (HCWs) concerns about the monkeypox virus in order to create practical solutions to manage this disease.

Methods: Online cross-sectional research was conducted in 11 Arabic countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, and Sudan) from 2 August 2022 to 28 December 2022.

Results: Approximately 82% of respondents felt the need to acquire further information. The acceptability of the vaccine against monkeypox has been indicated by more than half of the participants (54.5%). Furthermore, we state that 45% of the participants are knowledgeable about the monkeypox virus, and 53.1% of the participants have never been affected with COVID-19 before are more worried about COVID-19 than about monkeypox. Participants diagnosed with COVID-19 were 0.63 times less likely to worry about monkeypox than those who were not diagnosed with COVID-19. A greater willingness to get the monkeypox vaccination was seen among the age group 21-30 years (42.4%) compared to the other age groups.

Conclusion: Most healthcare professionals have a moderate knowledge of the monkeypox virus. Furthermore, they demonstrated a low willingness to get the vaccination against the monkeypox virus.

Keywords: COVID-19; anxiety; monkeypox; multi-national cross-sectional study; vaccination.

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Conflict of interest statement

BS was employed by Hamad Medical Corporation. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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The prevalence of human monkeypox knowledge among HCW.
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