WHAT HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THE HAIL REGION OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA KNOW AND THINK ABOUT MERS-COV
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knowledge, MERS-CoV, perception, health, practitioners
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The goal of this study is to find out how much health professionals know and think about MERS-CoV so that they can better deal with the health threat. It also wants to find a link between the participants' age, gender, marital status, level of education, and how serious, susceptible, and extensive their anxiety, efficacy, and self-efficacy were, as well as their purpose to complete the measures.Methods: A correlational method was used for this study. Health care workers from hospitals in the Hail Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took part. A convenience sampling method led to a response rate of 83% from the 264 health professionals who filled out the poll. We used the weighted mean, the standard deviation, and the Chi-square test of independence to look at the data.Results: The doctors know a lot about MERS-CoV. They know that it causes inflammation of the lungs (2.64 ± 0.48), always has signs (2.67 ± 0.52), and can be avoided by being clean (2.62 0.64). People think that MERS-CoV is a very dangerous disease (4.24±0.56). Also, both the risk of getting MERS-CoV and the level of worry are lower when no precautions are taken (3.30±1.18) and when people don't get vaccinated (2.7±0.90). The health professionals are very sure (4.40 ± 0.69) that they will carry out the measures and are not sure whether they will or not (3.38 ± 0.72). There were significant links between the desire to carry out the measures and age (P=0.001), civil status (P=0.026), and level of education (P=0.001). The level of schooling also has an effect on both efficacy and self-efficacy (P=0.031).The fact that health professionals know a lot about MERS-CoV and have a positive view of it may help predict when the disease will spread.
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