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Knowledge of Human Monkeypox and Its Relation to Conspiracy Beliefs among Students in Jordanian Health Schools: Filling the Knowledge Gap on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses

Sallam, Malik ; Al-Mahzoum, Kholoud ; Dardas, Latefa Ali ; Al-Tammemi, Ala'a B ; Al-Majali, Laith ; Al-Naimat, Hala ; Jardaneh, Laila ; AlHadidi, Farah ; Al-Salahat, Khaled ; Al-Ajlouni, Eyad ; AlHadidi, Nadin Mohammad ; Bakri, Faris G ; Mahafzah, Azmi ; Harapan, Harapan

Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2022-07, Vol.58 (7), p.924 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Switzerland: MDPI AG

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Knowledge of Human Monkeypox and Its Relation to Conspiracy Beliefs among Students in Jordanian Health Schools: Filling the Knowledge Gap on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses
Autor: Sallam, Malik ; Al-Mahzoum, Kholoud ; Dardas, Latefa Ali ; Al-Tammemi, Ala'a B ; Al-Majali, Laith ; Al-Naimat, Hala ; Jardaneh, Laila ; AlHadidi, Farah ; Al-Salahat, Khaled ; Al-Ajlouni, Eyad ; AlHadidi, Nadin Mohammad ; Bakri, Faris G ; Mahafzah, Azmi ; Harapan, Harapan
Assuntos: Adult ; Animals ; attitude ; Attitudes ; biological warfare ; Conspiracy ; conspiracy theory ; Coronaviruses ; Disease prevention ; Disease transmission ; Epidemics ; False information ; Female ; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi ; Genomes ; Gossip ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Health Sciences ; Humans ; Hälsovetenskap ; Infections ; Infectious diseases ; Jordan ; Knowledge ; lockdown ; Male ; Medical and Health Sciences ; Medical laboratories ; Medical research ; Medicin och hälsovetenskap ; Mpox (monkeypox) ; Orthopoxviruses ; Pandemics ; Phylogenetics ; preventive behavior ; Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology ; Questionnaires ; rumors ; Schools ; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ; Smallpox ; Social networks ; Students, Medical ; University students ; Viral infections ; Viral Zoonoses ; Viruses ; Young Adult ; Zoonoses
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Descrição: Background and Objective: The recent multi-country outbreak of human monkeypox (HMPX) in non-endemic regions poses an emerging public health concern. University students in health schools/faculties represent a core knowledgeable group that can be helpful to study from a public health point of view. As future healthcare workers, assessment of their knowledge and attitude towards emerging zoonotic viral infections can be helpful to assess their taught material and courses with potential improvement if gaps in knowledge were identified. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the level of HMPX knowledge, conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections, as well as their associated determinants among university students studying Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Sciences, and Rehabilitation in Jordanian health schools/faculties. In addition, we sought to evaluate the correlation between HMPX knowledge and the extent of holding conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging viral infection. Materials and Methods: A convenient sample of university students was obtained through an electronic survey distributed in late May 2022 using the chain-referral approach. Assessment of HMPX knowledge and general attitude towards emerging virus infections was based on survey items adopted from previously published literature. Results: The study sample comprised 615 students with a mean age of 20 years and a majority of females (432, 70.2%) and medical students (n = 351, 57.1%). Out of eleven monkeypox knowledge items, three were identified correctly by >70% of the respondents. Only 26.2% of the respondents (n = 161) knew that vaccination to prevent monkeypox is available. Age was significantly associated with better HMPX knowledge for a majority of items. Older age, females, and affiliation to non-medical schools/faculties were associated with harboring higher levels of conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections. Our data also indicate that lower levels of HMPX knowledge were associated with higher levels of conspiracy beliefs. Conclusion: The current study pointed to generally unsatisfactory levels of knowledge regarding the emerging HMPX among university students in Jordanian health schools/faculties. Conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections were widely prevalent, and its potential detrimental impact on health behavior should be evaluated in future studies.
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Knowledge of Human Monkeypox and Its Relation to Conspiracy Beliefs among Students in Jordanian Health Schools: Filling the Knowledge Gap on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses

Sallam, Malik ; Al-Mahzoum, Kholoud ; Dardas, Latefa Ali ; Al-Tammemi, Ala'a B ; Al-Majali, Laith ; Al-Naimat, Hala ; Jardaneh, Laila ; AlHadidi, Farah ; Al-Salahat, Khaled ; Al-Ajlouni, Eyad ; AlHadidi, Nadin Mohammad ; Bakri, Faris G ; Mahafzah, Azmi ; Harapan, Harapan

Switzerland: MDPI AG

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