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

Table 4 Multivariable analysis of the factors associated with the knowledge score

	Overall knowledge score
	Poor	Good	Total	P value	aOR	CI 95%
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	P value	aOR	Lower	Upper
Gender				0.032
Male	138 (59.7%)	93 (40.3%)	231 (100%)	Ref.
Female	393 (69.9%)	169 (30.1%)	562 (100%)		0.870	0.613	0.941
Age (years)				0.003
18–29	230 (65.0%)	124 (35.0%)	354 (100%)	Ref.
30–49	159 (63.9%)	90 (36.1%)	249 (100%)		0.743	0.381	0.908
50 and above	142 (74.7%)	48 (25.3%)	190 (100%)		0.514	0.317	0.771
Marital status				0.391
Single	181 (65.3%)	96 (34.7%)	277 (100%)
Married	296 (64.8%)	161 (35.2%)	457 (100%)
Other (widowed/divorced)	54 (91.5%)	5 (8.5%)	59 (100%)
Educational level				0.048
Secondary or below	120 (62.8%)	73 (37.2%)	193 (100%)	Ref.
University or above	396 (66.0%)	204 (34.0%)	600 (100%)		1.243	1.032	3.801
Occupation				0.006
Outside the medical field	281 (72.2%)	108 (27.8%)	389 (100%)	Ref.
Medical field	129 (58.9%)	90 (41.1%)	219 (100%)		1.932	1.311	3.419
Not working	121 (65.4%)	64 (34.6%)	185 (100%)		1.132	0.821	2.712
Urbanicity				0.023
Urban	348 (59.2%)	240 (40.8%)	588 (100%)	Ref.
Rural	183 (89.3%)	22 (10.7%)	205 (100%)		0.412	0.227	0.861
Suffering from chronic disease/immunodeficiency				0.032
No	438 (68.4%)	202 (31.6%)	640 (100%)	Ref.
Yes	93 (60.8%)	60 (39.2%)	153 (100%)		1.231	1.128	2.002
Self-reported economic situation				< 0.001
Low	499 (81.1%)	116 (29.9%)	615 (100%)	Ref.
Moderate/high	100 (56.2%)	78 (43.8%)	178 (100%)		2.131	1.431	4.221

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