Table 4.
Associations between student characteristics and knowledge and attitudes towards monkeypox based on univariate analysis
| Baseline characteristics | Knowledge | Attitude | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Good | p | Poor | Good | p | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 898 (20.55) | 941 (20.79) | 0.782 | 700 (18.34) | 1139 (22.42) | <0.001* |
| Female | 3472 (79.45) | 3586 (79.21) | 3116 (81.66) | 3942 (77.58) | ||
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| Han | 3914 (89.57) | 4013 (88.65) | 0.164 | 3412 (89.41) | 4515 (88.86) | 0.408 |
| Others | 456 (10.43) | 514 (11.35) | 404 (10.59) | 566 (11.14) | ||
| Origin of student | ||||||
| City | 1273 (29.13) | 1174 (25.93) | 0.001* | 1082 (28.35) | 1365 (26.86) | 0.119 |
| Rural | 3097 (70.87) | 3353 (74.07) | 2734 (71.65) | 3716 (73.14) | ||
| School year | ||||||
| First year | 2195 (50.23) | 2288 (50.54) | 0.472 | 2037 (53.38) | 2446 (48.14) | <0.001* |
| Second year | 1327 (30.37) | 1405 (31.04) | 1075 (28.17) | 1657 (32.61) | ||
| Third year | 848 (19.41) | 834 (18.42) | 704 (18.45) | 978 (19.25) | ||
| Major | ||||||
| Medicine | 3577 (81.85) | 3598 (79.48) | 0.005* | 3104 (81.34) | 4071 (80.12) | 0.150 |
| Others | 793 (18.15) | 929 (20.52) | 712 (18.66) | 1010 (19.88) | ||
*p < 0.05