Is the Saudi public aware of Middle East respiratory syndrome?
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Auteurs : Omar A. Al-Mohrej [Arabie saoudite] ; Sarah D. Al-Shirian [Arabie saoudite] ; Salman K. Al-Otaibi [Arabie saoudite] ; Hani M. Tamim [Liban] ; Emad M. Masuadi [Arabie saoudite] ; Hana M. Fakhoury [Arabie saoudite]Source :
- Journal of Infection and Public Health [ 1876-0341 ] ; 2015.
Abstract
To limit the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Health tried to raise public awareness using different public campaigns. We aimed to measure public awareness of MERS in Saudi Arabia.
A cross-sectional study was conducted between May and June 2014 using a newly designed Arabic questionnaire that was distributed and completed online.
We analyzed the response of 1149 respondents across Saudi Arabia. We found that 97% of the participants were aware of MERS. In addition, 72% realized that coughing and sneezing could spread the infection. Furthermore, 83% thought that some patients with MERS could be cured. Moreover, 62% knew that no vaccine can prevent the disease. However, only 36% realized that taking antibiotics will not stop the infection, and only 41% recognized that no medication has yet been manufactured to treat it. Regarding protection measures, 74% used hand sanitizers, 43% avoided crowded places, and 11% wore masks in public places. Moreover, only 47% knew that bats and camels are the primary source of the virus. As anticipated, this level of awareness varied between the different categories of the studied population. Female, married, older, and more educated participants were significantly more knowledgeable about the disease.
Public awareness of MERS is generally sufficient. However, some false beliefs about treatment were fairly common. In addition, almost half of the population remains unaware that bats and camels are the most likely sources of the virus.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2015.10.003
PubMed: 26589657
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We aimed to measure public awareness of MERS in Saudi Arabia.</p><p>A cross-sectional study was conducted between May and June 2014 using a newly designed Arabic questionnaire that was distributed and completed online.</p><p>We analyzed the response of 1149 respondents across Saudi Arabia. We found that 97% of the participants were aware of MERS. In addition, 72% realized that coughing and sneezing could spread the infection. Furthermore, 83% thought that some patients with MERS could be cured. Moreover, 62% knew that no vaccine can prevent the disease. However, only 36% realized that taking antibiotics will not stop the infection, and only 41% recognized that no medication has yet been manufactured to treat it. Regarding protection measures, 74% used hand sanitizers, 43% avoided crowded places, and 11% wore masks in public places. Moreover, only 47% knew that bats and camels are the primary source of the virus. As anticipated, this level of awareness varied between the different categories of the studied population. Female, married, older, and more educated participants were significantly more knowledgeable about the disease.</p><p>Public awareness of MERS is generally sufficient. However, some false beliefs about treatment were fairly common. In addition, almost half of the population remains unaware that bats and camels are the most likely sources of the virus.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Zaki, A M" uniqKey="Zaki A">A.M. Zaki</name></author><author><name sortKey="Van Boheemen, S" uniqKey="Van Boheemen S">S. van Boheemen</name></author><author><name sortKey="Bestebroer, T M" uniqKey="Bestebroer T">T.M. Bestebroer</name></author><author><name sortKey="Osterhaus, A D" uniqKey="Osterhaus A">A.D. Osterhaus</name></author><author><name sortKey="Fouchier, R A" uniqKey="Fouchier R">R.A. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">J Infect Public Health</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">J Infect Public Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Infection and Public Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1876-0341</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1876-035X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Elsevier</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">26589657</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">7102796</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">S1876-0341(15)00186-0</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.jiph.2015.10.003</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Is the Saudi public aware of Middle East respiratory syndrome?</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0005"><name><surname>Al-Mohrej</surname><given-names>Omar A.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0010"><name><surname>Al-Shirian</surname><given-names>Sarah D.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0015"><name><surname>Al-Otaibi</surname><given-names>Salman K.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0020"><name><surname>Tamim</surname><given-names>Hani M.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0010" ref-type="aff">b</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0025"><name><surname>Masuadi</surname><given-names>Emad M.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0015" ref-type="aff">c</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0030"><name><surname>Fakhoury</surname><given-names>Hana M.</given-names></name><email>hana.fakhoury@gmail.com</email><xref rid="aff0020" ref-type="aff">d</xref><xref rid="cor0005" ref-type="corresp">⁎</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff0005"><label>a</label>College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</aff><aff id="aff0010"><label>b</label>Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon</aff><aff id="aff0015"><label>c</label>Research Unit, Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</aff><aff id="aff0020"><label>d</label>Department of Basic Sciences, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor0005"><label>⁎</label>Corresponding author at: Basic Sciences Department, College of Science and Health Professions, Female Branch, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, P.O. Box 3660, Riyadh 11481, Saudi Arabia. Tel.: +966 11 8011111x47127. <email>hana.fakhoury@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>15</day><month>11</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><pmc-comment> PMC Release delay is 0 months and 0 days and was based on .</pmc-comment>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><season>May-Jun</season><year>2016</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>15</day><month>11</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>259</fpage><lpage>266</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>9</day><month>7</month><year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>21</day><month>9</month><year>2015</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>5</day><month>10</month><year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2015 King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier Limited.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year><copyright-holder>King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences</copyright-holder><license><license-p>Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="abs0005"><title>Summary</title><p>To limit the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Health tried to raise public awareness using different public campaigns. We aimed to measure public awareness of MERS in Saudi Arabia.</p><p>A cross-sectional study was conducted between May and June 2014 using a newly designed Arabic questionnaire that was distributed and completed online.</p><p>We analyzed the response of 1149 respondents across Saudi Arabia. We found that 97% of the participants were aware of MERS. In addition, 72% realized that coughing and sneezing could spread the infection. Furthermore, 83% thought that some patients with MERS could be cured. Moreover, 62% knew that no vaccine can prevent the disease. However, only 36% realized that taking antibiotics will not stop the infection, and only 41% recognized that no medication has yet been manufactured to treat it. Regarding protection measures, 74% used hand sanitizers, 43% avoided crowded places, and 11% wore masks in public places. Moreover, only 47% knew that bats and camels are the primary source of the virus. As anticipated, this level of awareness varied between the different categories of the studied population. Female, married, older, and more educated participants were significantly more knowledgeable about the disease.</p><p>Public awareness of MERS is generally sufficient. However, some false beliefs about treatment were fairly common. In addition, almost half of the population remains unaware that bats and camels are the most likely sources of the virus.</p></abstract><kwd-group id="kwd0005"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Coronavirus</kwd><kwd>MERS</kwd><kwd>Public awareness</kwd><kwd>Saudi Arabia</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></pmc><affiliations><list><country><li>Arabie saoudite</li><li>Liban</li></country></list><tree><country name="Arabie saoudite"><noRegion><name sortKey="Al Mohrej, Omar A" sort="Al Mohrej, Omar A" uniqKey="Al Mohrej O" first="Omar A." last="Al-Mohrej">Omar A. Al-Mohrej</name></noRegion><name sortKey="Al Otaibi, Salman K" sort="Al Otaibi, Salman K" uniqKey="Al Otaibi S" first="Salman K." last="Al-Otaibi">Salman K. Al-Otaibi</name><name sortKey="Al Shirian, Sarah D" sort="Al Shirian, Sarah D" uniqKey="Al Shirian S" first="Sarah D." last="Al-Shirian">Sarah D. Al-Shirian</name><name sortKey="Fakhoury, Hana M" sort="Fakhoury, Hana M" uniqKey="Fakhoury H" first="Hana M." last="Fakhoury">Hana M. Fakhoury</name><name sortKey="Masuadi, Emad M" sort="Masuadi, Emad M" uniqKey="Masuadi E" first="Emad M." last="Masuadi">Emad M. Masuadi</name></country><country name="Liban"><noRegion><name sortKey="Tamim, Hani M" sort="Tamim, Hani M" uniqKey="Tamim H" first="Hani M." last="Tamim">Hani M. Tamim</name></noRegion></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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