Table 2.
Association between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge level
| Variables | Knowledge level, n (%) |
p valuea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Moderate | Low | ||
| Knowledge level | 100 (66.7) | 38 (25.3) | 12 (8.0) | |
| Age group, years | 0.235a | |||
| 20-30 | 76 (71.0) | 22 (20.6) | 9 (8.4) | |
| 31-40 | 18 (56.3) | 11 (34.4) | 3 (9.4) | |
| 41-50 | 6 (60.0) | 4 (40.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| 51-60 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Gender | 0.110a | |||
| Male | 3 (50.0) | 1 (16.7) | 2 (33.3) | |
| Female | 97 (67.4) | 37 (25.7) | 10 (6.9) | |
| Ethnicity | >0.950a | |||
| Malay | 89 (66.4) | 34 (25.4) | 11 (8.2) | |
| Non-Malay | 11 (68.8) | 4 (25.0) | 1 (6.3) | |
| Nursing education level | 0.249a | |||
| Diploma | 90 (68.2) | 30 (22.7) | 12 (9.1) | |
| Diploma & post basic | 4 (44.4) | 5 (55.6) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Diploma, post basic & degree | 6 (66.7) | 3 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Speciality of work area | 0.123a | |||
| Medical | 32 (74.4) | 8 (18.6) | 3 (7.0) | |
| Surgical | 21 (80.8) | 3 (11.5) | 2 (7.7) | |
| Oncology | 30 (53.6) | 22 (39.3) | 4 (7.1) | |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 13 (61.9) | 5 (23.8) | 3 (14.3) | |
| Paediatric | 4 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Years of working experience | 0.014a* | |||
| 1-10 | 82 (71.3) | 22 (19.1) | 11 (9.6) | |
| 11-20 | 16 (50.0) | 15 (46.9) | 1 (3.1) | |
| 21-30 | 2 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| 31-40 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
a
Fisher-exact test,
*
p ≤0.05 was considered to be statistically significant