Awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge among inbound personnel / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective@# To investigate the awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge and its influencing factors among inbound personnel, so as to provide insights into intensified health education for monkeypox prevention and control.@*Methods@#Inbound personnel at ages of 16 years and older were sampled using a convenient sampling method from centralized medical isolation observation points in Gongshu District, Hangzhou City in November and December 2022. Participants' demographic features, history of travel in countries where monkeypox cases were reported and awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge were collected through questionnaire surveys, and factors affecting the awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge were identified using a multivariable logistic regression model. @*Results@#A total of 306 questionnaires were allocated, and 293 valid questionnaires were recovered, with an effective response rate of 95.75%. The respondents included 192 men (65.53%) and 101 women (34.47%), and hand a median (interquartile range) age of 36 (16) years. The overall awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge was 44.71%, and the awareness rates of preventive measures, source of infection, transmission route, susceptible populations and clinical manifestations were 82.94%, 79.18%, 75.09%, 60.75% and 60.07%, respectively. Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that workers (OR=0.179, 95%CI 0.040-0.800), self-employed individuals (OR=0.090, 95%CI 0.018-0.451), and those with other occupations (OR=0.157, 95%CI 0.034-0.728) had lower awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge than students, and individuals who had never heard of monkeypox (OR=0.056, 95%CI 0.007-0.447) had lower awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge than those who had heard of it. In addition, individuals who were not concerned about monkeypox epidemics (OR=0.048, 95%CI 0.004-0.563) had lower awareness than those who were very concerned. @*Conclusions@#Inbound personnel have low awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge, and occupation, having heard of monkeypox and concern about monkeypox epidemics may affect the awareness of monkeypox prevention knowledge. Intensified health education about monkeypox is required to improve the preventive awareness among inbound personnel.