Hotel employees' knowledge of monkeypox's source, symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment in Egypt.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The re-emerging human monkeypox virus (MPXV) poses a global threat. The rising number of confirmed MPXV cases worldwide is a significant reason for concern. This study aims to investigate (1) hotel employees' knowledge in Egypt of MPXV source, signs/symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment, (2) the primary sources of their information about MPXV, (3) whether or not they received information about MPXV from their hotels, and (4) the differences of employees' knowledge in terms of gender, age, marital status, level of education, type of contract, professional category, hotel department, type of hotel, seniority in the hotel, and the number of hotel rooms.

Methods

Using a quantitative approach, we collected data from 453 employees in Egyptian hotels via a we

SUBMITTER: Elkhwesky Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10102563 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature