Table 1 Distribution of participants according to knowledge, attitude and practices n = 190
Knowledge | Attitude | Practice | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Poor n (%) | Good n (%) | p-valuea | Poor n (%) | Good n (%) | p-valuea | Poor n (%) | Good n (%) | p-valuea |
Age | 0.290 | 0.295 | 0.020* | ||||||
< 40 | 53 (69.7) | 71 (62.3) | 37 (71.2) | 87 (63.0) | 51 (76.1) | 73 (59.3) | |||
≥ 40 | 23 (30.3) | 43 (37.7) | 15 (28.8) | 51 (37.0) | 16 (23.9) | 50 (40.7) | |||
Gender | 0.829 | 0.022* | 0.866 | ||||||
Female | 59 (77.6) | 90 (78.9) | 35 (67.3) | 114 (82.6) | 53 (79.1) | 96 (78.0) | |||
Male | 17 (22.4) | 24 (21.1) | 17 (32.7) | 24 (17.4) | 14 (20.9) | 27 (22.0) | |||
Marital status | 0.947 | 0.585 | 0.567 | ||||||
Married | 21 (27.6) | 32 (28.1) | 13 (25.0) | 40 (29.0) | 17 (25.4) | 36 (29.3) | |||
Unmarried | 55 (72.4) | 82 (71.9) | 39 (75.0) | 98 (71.0) | 50 (74.6) | 87 (70.7) | |||
Education | 0.009** | 0.288 | 0.577 | ||||||
Without degree | 39 (51.3) | 37 (32.5) | 24 (46.2) | 52 (37.7) | 25 (37.3) | 51 (41.5) | |||
With degree | 37 (48.7) | 77 (67.5) | 28 (53.8) | 86 (62.3) | 42 (62.7) | 72 (58.5) | |||
Income | 0.007** | 0.121 | 0.219 | ||||||
Low | 51 (67.1) | 54 (47.4) | 24 (46.2) | 81 (58.7) | 33 (49.3) | 72 (58.5) | |||
High | 25 (32.9) | 60 (52.6) | 28 (53.8) | 57 (41.3) | 34 (50.7) | 51 (41.5) | |||
Occupation | 0.159 | 0.598 | 0.119 | ||||||
Clinician | 43 (56.6) | 76 (66.7) | 31 (59.6) | 88 (63.8) | 37 (55.2) | 82 (66.7) | |||
Non-Clinician | 33 (43.4) | 38 (33.3) | 21 (40.4) | 50 (36.2) | 30 (44.8) | 41 (33.3) | |||
Work experience | 0.545 | 0.248 | 0.630 | ||||||
≤ 5 | 32 (42.1) | 43 (37.7) | 24 (46.2) | 51 (37.0) | 28 (41.8) | 47 (38.2) | |||
> 5 | 44 (57.9) | 71 (62.3) | 28 (53.8) | 87 (63.0) | 39 (58.2) | 76 (61.8) | |||
Place of employment | 0.351 | 0.517 | 0.273 | ||||||
Urban | 63 (82.9) | 100 (87.7) | 46 (88.5) | 117 (84.8) | 60 (89.6) | 103 (83.7) | |||
Rural | 13 (17.1) | 14 (12.3) | 6 (11.5) | 21 (15.2) | 7 (10.4) | 20 (16.3) | |||