Table 3 Distribution of knowledge score across the different variables
Variable | Knowledge Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor (%) | Fair (%) | Good (%) | Chi-squared (X2) | P-value | |
Gender | |||||
Male | 5 (2.4) | 89 (43.0) | 113 (54.6) | 6.78 | 0.034 |
Female | 8 (5.3) | 80 (53.0) | 63 (41.7) | ||
Age | |||||
18–24 | 2 (10) | 8 (40) | 10 (50) | 14.48 | 0.152 |
25–34 | 7 (5.2) | 54 (40.3) | 73 (54.5) | ||
35–44 | 3 (2.2) | 72 (53.3) | 60 (44.4) | ||
45–54 | 1 (1.7) | 33 (55.0) | 26 (43.3) | ||
55–64 | 0 (0) | 2 (22.2) | 7 (77.8) | ||
Profession | |||||
Physicians | 1 (0.5) | 75 (35.2) | 137 (64.3) | 69.59 | < 0.001 |
Nurse | 5 (7.9) | 41 (65.1) | 17 (27.0) | ||
Community health workers | 1 (2.9) | 29 (82.9) | 5 (14.3) | ||
Dentist | 1 (7.1) | 6 (42.9) | 7 (50.0) | ||
Others | 5 (15.2) | 18 (54.5) | 10 (30.3) | ||
Health care facility | |||||
Primary | 6 (9.5) | 42 (66.7) | 15 (23.8) | 24.99 | < 0.001 |
Secondary | 3 (3.1) | 46 (47.4) | 48 (49.5) | ||
Tertiary | 4 (2.0) | 81 (40.9) | 113 (57.1) | ||
States | |||||
Borno | 1 (1.5) | 24 (36.9) | 40 (61.5) | 28.68 | 0.001 |
Delta | 2 (3.9) | 28 (54.9) | 21 (41.2) | ||
Ebonyi | 0 (0) | 31 (49.2) | 32 (50.8) | ||
Jigawa | 6 (9.7) | 38 (61.3) | 18 (29.0) | ||
Lagos | 1 (1.4) | 25 (35.7) | 44 (62.9) | ||
Plateau | 3 (6.4) | 23 (48.9) | 21 (44.7) | ||
Total | 13 (3.6) | 169 (47.2) | 176 (49.2) | ||