This study compares Jordanian healthcare professionals to those in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, the Gulf, and Morocco to assess their probiotic knowledge, attitudes, and practices. A cross-sectional study was carried out from May to August 2020 involving 269 healthcare providers (HCPs) from medical, dentistry, pharmacy, and nutrition majors. An online survey was used to collect data via email and social media. The analysis of variance test was used to examine if the variants reject the Null hypothesis. A multilingual linear test correlation coefficient was used to analyze the relationship between probiotic knowledge, attitude, and practice variables. Of all respondents, 13.3% of healthcare medical providers had good knowledge. The majority of HCPs that used probiotics were dietitians (69.4%). However, the multilingual linear test for probiotic knowledge, attitude, and practice correlated significantly with gender and speciality are 0.005 and 0.009, respectively. Most respondents had a limited level of knowledge of probiotics, despite the positive attitudes and positive practices toward probiotics, which could be improved by the implementation of targeted learning programs and workshops.
Key words: probiotics, Jordan, knowledge, attitude, practice, Meddile east.
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