Table 3.
Chi-Square analysis of the relationship between demographic characteristics and knowledge, attitudes, and Preventive practices regarding STH
| Characteristics | Knowledge level n (%) |
P-value | Attitude level n (%) |
P-value | Practice level n (%) |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Good | Poor | Good | Poor | Good | ||||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Female | 33(31.1) | 73(68.9) | 0.344 | 24(22.6) | 82(77.4) | 0.445 | 77(72.6) | 29(27.4) | 0.479 |
| Male | 0(0) | 2(100) | 0(0) | 2(100) | 1(50) | 1(50) | |||
| Age group | |||||||||
| 18–24 | - | - | 0.018* | - | - | 0.516 | - | - | 0.015* |
| 25–34 | 1(5.9%) | 16(94.1) | 2(11.8) | 15(88.2) | 8(47.1) | 9(52.9) | |||
| 35–44 | 15(28.8) | 37(71.2) | 14(26.9) | 38(73.1) | 43(82.7) | 9(17.3) | |||
| ≥ 45 | 17(43.6) | 22(56.4) | 8(20.5) | 31(79.5) | 27(69.2) | 12(30.8) | |||
| Educational Level | |||||||||
| NCE/NTI | 32(30.8) | 72(69.2) | 0.806 | 24(23.1) | 80(76.9) | 0.276 | 74(71.2) | 30(28.8) | 0.206 |
| B.Ed/B.Sc/B.A | 1(25.0) | 3(75.0) | 0(0%) | 4(100%) | 4(100.0) | 0(0) | |||
| PGDE | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Years of Experience | |||||||||
| 1–5 | 1(7.1) | 13(92.9) | 0.125 | 2(14.3) | 12(85.7) | 0.030* | 9(64.3) | 5(35.7) | 0.775 |
| 6–10 | 24(33.8) | 47(66.2) | 21(29.6) | 50(70.4) | 52(73.2) | 19(26.8) | |||
| 11–20 | 8(34.8) | 15(65.2) | 1(4.2) | 22(95.8) | 17(73.9) | 6(26.1) | |||
| > 20 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Knowledge | |||||||||
| Poor | 11(33.3) | 22(66.7) | 0.043* | 30(90.9) | 3(9.1) | 0.004* | |||
| Good | 13(17.3) | 62(82.7) | 48(64.0) | 27(36.0) | |||||
P-value < 0.05 was considered significant