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Table 3 Relationship between knowledge score and sources of information about monkeypox

From: When a neglected tropical zoonotic disease emerges in non-endemic countries: need to proactively fill the unveiled knowledge gaps towards human monkeypox among the Lebanese population

 

Overall knowledge

P value

Total

Poor

Good

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Media (TV, radio, newspaper)

545 (68.73%)

369 (67.7%)

176 (32.3%)

< 0.001

Social media (Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter…)

463 (58.39%)

324 (70%)

139 (30%)

 

Health authorities (MOPH…)

484 (61.03%)

298 (61.6%)

186 (38.4%)

 

Healthcare professionals (physicians…)

328 (41.36%)

207 (63.1%)

121 (36.9%)

 

Scientific journals/articles

420 (52.96%)

243 (57.9%)

177 (42.1%)

 

Health website (WHO, CDC…)

422 (53.22%)

258 (61.1%)

164 (38.9%)

 

Family and friends

350 (44.14%)

251 (71.7%)

99 (28.3%)

 

Hotline

8 (1%)

5(62.5%)

3 (37.5%)

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