TY - JOUR TI - Health-related students’ knowledge of hepatitis-B virus and their attitude of vaccination compliance in Makkah city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia A1 - Bakry, Salah A2 - Rashed, Asem A3 - Alharthi, Talal A4 - Islam, Moayad A5 - Bakry, Suhayb A6 - Siddiqui, Muhammad Irfanullah JF - International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries JO - IJMDC SN - 1658-7820 VL - 5 IS - 11 SP - 1939 EP - 1944 Y1 - 2021 AB - Background: Hepatitis B virus remains a public health dilemma with a high mortality rate worldwide. Health care providers and health students have garter risk of catching the infection as they are close to infected individuals and their bodily fluids. Consequently, we aimed to estimate the awareness, knowledge, and compliance with the vaccine among health-related students in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was demonstrated using a self-administered structured survey at Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The study was carried out from March 2021 to September 2021 after obtaining ethical approval from UQU’s research ethics committee. A random sampling technique and multistage stratification method were applied to stratify studentsResults: Among the studied subjects 354 students of health-related students were surveyed. The mean age of participants was 21.1 ± 2.4 years. The majority of the students were males (286, 80.8%). There were significant differences between students’ demographic data and level of knowledge (p-values, 0.000).Conclusion: This study revealed that the majority of the students reflect positive attitude concerning vaccination compliance. Additionally, participants’ age, gender, college, marital status, and academic year showed a significant relationship with their level of awareness compared with the other demographic categories. PB - https://www.ijmdc.com DO - 10.24911/IJMDC.51-1631732781 UR - https://www.ijmdc.com/?mno=125037 ER -