Table 3.
Association of Knowledge Score and Attitude with Demographic Factors
| Demographic factor | No of women (N) | Mean±SD knowledge score | Median knowledge score |
P value | Mean±SD attitude score |
Median attitude score |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place of living | 0.0116 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Rural | 933 | 1.76±2.59 | 0 (0-3) | 28.68±18.63 | 38 (0-41) | ||
| Urban | 867 | 2.3±2.72 | 1 (0-4) | 31.23±17.57 | 38 (26-44) | ||
| Education | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | |||||
| Illiterate | 260 | 0.75±1.39 | 0 (0-1) | 30.45±17.78 | 38 (20-40) | ||
| Primary | 570 | 1.45±2.17 | 0 (0-2) | 27.26±19.45 | 38 (0-42) | ||
| Secondary | 401 | 2.50±2.86 | 1 (0-4) | 25.28±19.82 | 34 (0-43) | ||
| Graduate & above | 569 | 3.50±3.12 | 3 (1-6) | 33.42±16.22 | 38 (32-46) | ||
| Occupation | 0 | 0.0000 | |||||
| Housewife | 1549 | 1.83±2.56 | 1 (0-3) | 28.77±18.57 | 38 (0-42) | ||
| Professional | 251 | 3.52±2.87 | 3 (1-5) | 36.94±13.45 | 40 (35-46) | ||
| Socioeconomic Status | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | |||||
| Upper | 72 | 2.30±3.22 | 1 (0-3) | 29.11±18.34 | 38 (16-46) | ||
| Upper Middle | 344 | 1.92±2.59 | 1 (-0-3) | 27.25±18.90 | 38 (0-41) | ||
| Lower Middle | 482 | 2.19±2.94 | 1 (0-3) | 25.97±18.45 | 35 (0-40) | ||
| Upper Lower Middle | 660 | 2.55±2.60 | 2 (0-5) | 34.89±15.11 | 40 (33.5-45) | ||
| Lower | 242 | 0.66±1.45 | 0 (0-1) | 28.21±20.97 | 40 (0-46) | ||