Table 3.
Comparison of knowledge, attitude, and behavior according to gender, age, year of study, and self-rated knowledge.
| No. | Knowledge | Attitude | Behavior | |||||
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| Inadequate | Adequate | Negative | Positive | Negative | Positive | |||
| Gender | Male | 292 | 84 (28.8%) | 208 (71.2%) | 186 (63.7%) | 106 (36.3%) | 22 (7.5%) | 270 (92.5%) |
| Female | 477 | 108 (22.6%) | 369 (77.4%) | 271 (56.8%) | 206 (43.2%) | 20 (4.2%) | 457 (95.8%) | |
| χ 2 test | χ 2 value = 3.63, p = 0.06 (NS) | χ 2 value = 3.56, p = 0.06 (NS) | χ 2 value = 3.92, p = 0.04 ∗ | |||||
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| Age | <25 years | 667 | 180 (27.0%) | 487 (73.0%) | 413 (61.9%) | 254 (38.1%) | 42 (6.3%) | 625 (93.7%) |
| >25 years | 102 | 12 (11.8%) | 90 (88.2%) | 44 (43.1%) | 58 (56.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 102 (100.0%) | |
| χ 2 test | χ 2 value = 10.94, p = 0.001 ∗ | χ 2 value = 12.94, p < 0.001 ∗ | χ 2 value = 6.79, p = 0.009 ∗ | |||||
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| Status | Undergraduate | 668 | 192 (28.7%) | 476 (71.3%) | 405 (60.6%) | 263 (39.4%) | 42 (6.3%) | 626 (93.7%) |
| Postgraduate | 101 | 0 (0.0%) | 101 (100.0%) | 52 (51.5%) | 49 (48.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 101 (100.0%) | |
| χ 2 test | χ 2 value = 38.69, p < 0.001 ∗ | χ 2 value = 3.04, p = 0.08 (NS) | χ 2 value = 6.72, p = 0.01 ∗ | |||||
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| Year of study | Preclinical students | 275 | 83 (30.2%) | 192 (69.8%) | 144 (52.4%) | 131 (47.6%) | 17 (6.2%) | 258 (93.8%) |
| Clinical students | 381 | 109 (28.6%) | 272 (71.4%) | 265 (69.6%) | 116 (30.4%) | 25 (6.6%) | 356 (93.4%) | |
| Interns | 113 | 0 (0.0%) | 113 (100.0%) | 48 (42.5%) | 65 (57.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 113 (100.0%) | |
| χ 2 test | χ 2 value = 44.29, p < 0.001 ∗ | χ 2 value = 35.36, p < 0.001 ∗ | χ 2 value = 7.70, p = 0.02 ∗ | |||||
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| Self-rated knowledge level on COVID-19 disease? | Very poor/poor/average | 229 | 80 (34.9%) | 149 (65.1%) | 144 (62.9%) | 85 (37.1%) | 6 (2.6%) | 223 (97.4%) |
| Good/very good | 540 | 112 (20.7%) | 428 (79.3%) | 313 (58.0%) | 227 (42.0%) | 36 (6.7%) | 504 (93.3%) | |
| χ 2 test | χ 2 value = 17.29, p < 0.001 ∗ | χ 2 value = 1.61, p = 0.20 (NS) | χ 2 value = 5.10, p = 0.02 ∗ | |||||
∗Statistically significant. NS, nonsignificant.