Table 4.

Participants’ knowledge according to their sociodemographic distribution presented in mean ± sd.

Variables		n	Mean ± sd	P value
Areas distribution	Northern areas	348	0.11 ± 1.0	0.7501
	Middle areas	88	0.55 ± 1.1
	Southern area	81	0.11 ± 1.2
	Gaza	60	0.15 ± 0.9
Gender	Male	88	− 0.18 ± 1.1	0.006*2
	Female	489	0.15 ± 0.99
Marital status	Single	231	0.11 ± 1.1	0.6681
	Married	331	0.10 ± 0.96
	Others	15	− 0.15 ± 1.2
Educational level	School education	58	1.04 ± 0.45	0.1371
	Diploma	35	− 0.04 ± 1.1
	Degree	413	0.13 ± 0.92
	Postgraduate	71	0.13 ± 0.92
Work status	Governmental officer	79	− 0.05 ± 1.0	0.6271
	Private work- office	101	0.21 ± 0.87
	Business s	17	0.05 ± 0.61
	Technician	9	0.14 ± 1.8
	Employee	7	0.015 ± 0.39
	Not working	364	0.11 ± 1.1
Income NIS/ month	< 1500	68	− 0.01 ± 0.99	0.4701
	1500–3000	187	0.17 ± 1.1
	3001–5000	153	0.079 ± 0.97
	More than 5000	145	0.03 ± 0.97

*Significant, p < 0.05 using Independent sample t- test. ¹one Way Anova, ²Independent sample t-test.