Table 1.
Knowledge and attitude of participants in terms of sociodemographic and professional characteristics.
| Variable | Frequency n (%) | Knowledge |
Attitude |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Good | Negative | Positive | ||
| Age | |||||
| < 30 | 205 (52.7) | 146 (71.22) | 59 (28.78) | 41 (20) | 164 (80) |
| ≥ 30 | 184 (47.3) | 124 (67.39) | 60 (32.61) | 18 (9.78) | 166 (90.22) |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 205 (52.7) | 144 (70.24) | 61 (29.76) | 30 (14.63) | 175 (85.37) |
| Male | 184 (47.3) | 126 (68.48) | 58 (31.52) | 29 (15.76) | 155 (84.24) |
| Institute | |||||
| Govt. Institute | 195 (50.13) | 136 (69.74) | 59 (30.26) | 28 (14.36) | 167 (85.64) |
| Private Institute | 194 (49.87) | 134 (69.07) | 60 (30.93) | 31 (15.98) | 163 (84.02) |
| Workplace | |||||
| Govt. Hospital | 140 (35.99) | 94 (67.14) | 46 (32.86) | 18 (12.86) | 122 (87.14) |
| Only Private Chamber/GP | 25 (6.43) | 19 (76) | 6 (24) | 6 (24) | 19 (76) |
| Private Hospital | 224 (57.58) | 157 (70.09) | 67 (29.91) | 35 (15.63) | 189 (84.37) |
| Education | |||||
| Graduate (MBBS) | 325 (83.55) | 233 (71.69) | 92 (28.31) | 54 (16.62) | 271 (83.38) |
| Postgraduate (Completed) | 64 (16.45) | 37 (57.81) | 27 (42.19) | 5 (7.81) | 59 (92.19) |
| Got information about monkeypox | |||||
| No | 276 (70.95) | 207 (75) | 69 (25) | 41 (14.86) | 235 (85.14) |
| Yes | 113 (29.05) | 63 (55.75) | 50 (44.25) | 18 (15.93) | 95 (84.07) |
| Learned about monkeypox | |||||
| Before last 1 month | 69 (17.74) | 33 (47.83) | 36 (52.17) | 11 (15.94) | 58 (84.06) |
| Within last 1 month | 320 (82.26) | 237 (74.06) | 83 (25.94) | 48 (15) | 272 (85) |
| Duration of medical practice | |||||
| < 5 years | 200 (51.41) | 132 (66) | 68 (34) | 35 (17.5) | 165 (82.5) |
| ≥ 5 years | 189 (48.59) | 138 (73.02) | 51 (26.98) | 24 (12.7) | 165 (87.3) |