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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1521923
Knowledge and Attitude of Human Mpox Viral Infection among Pharmacy Students in Jazan University: A web based Cross-Sectional Study
Provisionally accepted
Eman Merghani Ali 1
Amani Khardali 1
Nawazish Alam 1*
Abdulkarim Meraya 1
Hilal Thaibah 1 Dalin A Hassan 2 Mohamed Eltaib Elmobark 3
Alanood Aladwani 1 Anugeetha Thacheril Mohanan 2
Hanan A Bakri 4
Zamzam O Mashraqi 5 Areej Mousa Salhabi 1- 1 Pharmacy Practice Research Unit (PPRU), Department of Clinical Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jazan University., Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- 2 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Jizan, Saudi Arabia
- 3 Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- 4 Pharmaceutical Care Department, King Fahd Central Hospital, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- 5 Pharmacy Department, Wadi Al-Dawasir Armed Forced Hospital, Wadi al Dawasir, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has witnessed the first confirmed case of Mpox on July 14 th , 2022. Currently, there is no approved medication for the treatment of this infection. Therefore, prevention of this infection is crucial. This study aimed to assess knowledge and attitude toward the monkeypox viral infection among pharmacy students of jazan university in Saudi Arabia. This is a cross-sectional, self-administered web-based study between the periods from April 2024 to June 2024. Descriptive statistics for all variables used chi-square statistics, and multivariate analysis to establish the association between participant's demographic characteristics and knowledge of monkeypox disease. The overall level of knowledge and attitude found 32% and 44.5%, respectively among pharmacy students.The source of information was commonly social media (55.5%), and only 38% reported receiving information during medical education. The factors associated with knowledge level included gender (P=0.02), obesity (P=0.03), receiving information from family or friends (P=0.03), and during medical education (P=0.016). The factors that were associated with attitude included age (P=0.03), chronic disease (P=0.0001), social media (P=0.007), and medical education (P=0.004) as sources of information.This study found the participants had a low level of knowledge and attitude toward Mpox infection. There is a need for the implementation of educational programs to know about this kind of outbreak and increase the knowledge and attitude of the students.
Keywords: knowledge, Attitude, Students, Monkeypox, Jazan
Received: 03 Nov 2024; Accepted: 28 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ali, Khardali, Alam, Meraya, Thaibah, Hassan, Elmobark, Aladwani, Mohanan, Bakri, Mashraqi and Salhabi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Nawazish Alam, Pharmacy Practice Research Unit (PPRU), Department of Clinical Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jazan University., Jazan, Saudi Arabia
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