Table 3.

Association between knowledge score and the characteristics of the participants.

	Overall			Pediatricians			Family physicians
	N	Mean Rank	Test statistic (P value)a	n	Mean Rank	Test statistic (P value)	n	Mean Rank	Test statistic (P value)
Specialty				-			-
Pediatrics	112	110.699	4683.00
Family medicine	96	7.28	(.10)
Gender
Male	82	109.73	4737.00	44	58.98	1387.00	38	51.29	996.00
Female	126	101.10	(.30)	68	54.90	(.51)	58	46.67	(.42)
Willingness to regularly receive COVID-19 vaccine
Yes	174	113.34	1419.00	93	61.90	381.50	81	52.02	322.50
No	34	59.24	(<.001)	19	30.08	(<.001)	15	29.50	(<.001)
Job Title
Resident	113	99.03	14.73 (<.001)	47	51.33	13.67 (.001)	66	48.68	6.52 (.04)
Specialist in academia	62	95.35		49	52.58		13	33. 62
Specialist in the private sector	33	140.42		16	83.69		17	59.18
Experience as a specialist
<5 Years	50	49.80	1215.00	25	28.88	397.00	25	21.54	213.50
≥5 Years	66	65.09	(.01)	46	39.87	(0.03)	20	24.83	(.40)
Marital Status
Single	68	102.87	4649.00	36	53.47	1259.00	32	50.05	974.50
Married	139	104.55	(.85)	75	57.21	(.56)	64	47.73	(.69)
Having Children
Yes	124	106.04	5017.00	65	58.82	1377.00	59	47.95	1059.00
No	84	102.23	(.65)	47	53.30	(.37)	37	49.38	(.80)

^aP values were calculated using Mann – Whitney U test for binary variables, and Kruskal – Wallis H test for multinomial variables (Job title).