Objective
To assess healthcare workers’ (HCWs) confidence level in diagnosing and managing mpox disease and its associated factors in hospitals in the Amhara Region.
Design
Institution-based cross-sectional study.
Setting
Hospitals in the Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia.
Participants
A total of 640 HCWs, with a response rate of 96.9%, participated from 1 October to 30 December 2022. A multistage stratified random sampling technique with proportional allocation was used to recruit study participants. Data were collected using the KoboCollect toolbox and exported to STATA V.17 for analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to describe data. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was used to identify predictors of confidence level to diagnose and manage mpox at p