Monkeypox knowledge practice attitude study, to evaluate the extended knowledge, Attitude and practice of medical professionals in a hospital in kerala

Completed

• Conditions: Doctors and Nurses

• Registration Number: CTRI/2023/06/053797
• Lead Sponsor: Bimal Gopan

Brief Summary

3. Aims & objectives: To assess the significant extent of knowledge, attitude and practices of

physicians and nurses towards monkeypox in a tertiary care hospital.

4. Justification for study :

Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by monkeypox virus infection. The monkeypox virus

belongs to the same virus family as the variola virus, which causes smallpox. The symptoms of

monkeypox are similar to those of smallpox, but they are milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal.

Chickenpox is not related to monkeypox1. Human monkeypox is a zoonotic Orthopoxvirus that

looks like smallpox. It is difficult to distinguish the disease from smallpox and varicella.

Laboratory diagnostics are critical components of disease identification and surveillance, and

new technologies are constantly being developed. Tests are required for a more accurate and

timelier diagnosis.2 In 1970, a 9-month-old boy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

became the first known human case. Several outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported

in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Gabon,

Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan between 1970 and 2017. The first outbreak

outside of Africa occurred in the United States in 2003, when 47 human cases were linked to

close contact with infected prairie dogs imported from Ghana3. On July 14, India reported its

first case of monkeypox in a man with a travel history from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to

Kerala—making it the first documented case in the Southeast Asian region. Over the past

month, cases in India have continued to inch up. As of August 8, 2022, the country reported

nine confirmed cases of monkeypox, five from Kerala, in the southwest of India, and four from

Delhi.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2023-06-15
• Study Start: 2023-06-22
• Last Update Posted: 2023-06-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 386

Inclusion Criteria

Doctors and Nurses.

Exclusion Criteria

Non-Clinical and Allied health Professionals.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
to assess the level of knowledge, practice and attitude of Physicians and Nurses towards the disease monkeypox in a tertiary care hospital in Kochi, Kerala	8 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Aster Medcity; 🇮🇳 Ernakulam, KERALA, India

Aster Medcity

🇮🇳Ernakulam, KERALA, India

LIJI J Thomas

Principal investigator

8089123582

liji.thomas1@asterdmhealthcare.com