Table 4. Human papillomavirus (HPV) attitude scores based on participants age, gender, specialty, experience, and workplace.
Characteristic | Attitude Score | ||
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Age | Mean (Range) | Median (IQR) | P-Value |
≤ 25 (75) | 2.8 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | |
26–40 (296) | 2.6 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | 0.002 |
41–60 (31) | 1.9 (0–4) | 2.0 (2–3) | 0.009 |
above 60 (10) | 2.2 (0–4) | 2.0 (2–3) | |
Gender | |||
Female (219) | 2.7 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–4) | 0.030 |
Male (193) | 2.4 (0–4) | 2.0 (2–3) | 0.023 |
Specialty | |||
Surgery (60) | 2.5 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | |
Internal Medicine (46) | 2.6 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | 0.735 |
Pediatrics (25) | 2.5 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | 0.887 |
Gynecology (72) | 2.7 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–4) | |
Others (102) | 2.4 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | |
Experience | |||
Specialist (130) | 2.2 (0–4) | 2.0 (1–3) | 0.000 |
Resident (215) | 2.6 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | 0.000 |
General practitioner (67) | 3.0 (0–4) | 3.0 (3–4) | |
Work | |||
Ministry of health (158) | 2.6 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | 0.514 |
Academia (128) | 2.5 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–3) | 0.339 |
Private sector (105) | 2.7 (0–4) | 3.0 (2–4) | |
Military Services (21) | 2.8 (1–4) | 3.0 (2–3) |
The first p-value shows the ANOVA results for differences between means, while the second p-value shows the difference between medians using Kruskal-Wallis test.