Table 5.
Parameters affecting researchers’ scores (N = 369).
| Variable |
Knowledge |
Attitude |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (%) ± SD | p-valuea | Mean (%) ± SD | p-valuea | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 60.9 ± 20.0 | <0.001 | 68.0 ± 8.2 | 0.723 |
| Female | 53.3 ± 18.1 | 68.3 ± 7.9 | ||
| Age | ||||
| 22–35 | 58.3 ± 19.6 | 0.427 | 69.3 ± 8.5 | 0.131 |
| 36–45 | 59.7 ± 20.7 | 67.2 ± 8.4 | ||
| 46–55 | 58.7 ± 17.9 | 67.7 ± 6.8 | ||
| >56 | 53.3 ± 19.4 | 66.9 ± 6.4 | ||
| Working country | ||||
| Jordan | 57.3 ± 19.7 | 0.022 | 68.2 ± 8.0 | 0.877 |
| Other countries | 63.5 ± 18.6 | 68.0 ± 8.2 | ||
| Highest qualification | ||||
| Bachelor | 57.7 ± 21.4 | 0.317 | 68.7 ± 6.7 | 0.035 |
| Master | 55.8 ± 21.0 | 70.0 ± 8.6 | ||
| PhD | 59.5 ± 18.5 | 67.3 ± 8.1 | ||
| Employment field | ||||
| Academic | 60.0 ± 23.1 | 0.011 | 67.6 ± 8.2 | 0.028 |
| Government sector | 51.0 ± 21.1 | 71.6 ± 6.9 | ||
| Other | 54.4 ± 21.4 | 68.6 ± 7.9 | ||
| Specialty | ||||
| Nursing | 56.7 ± 18.7 | 0.125 | 67.3 ± 8.1 | 0.366 |
| Pharmacy | 59.6 ± 18.8 | 67.2 ± 8.0 | ||
| Medicine | 54.2 ± 20.8 | 68.5 ± 7.0 | ||
| Biological sciences | 57.7 ± 20.2 | 68.6 ± 9.2 | ||
| Applied medical sciences | 63.3 ± 17.8 | 69.7 ± 8.6 | ||
| Dentistry | 56.3 ± 22.4 | 67.3 ± 7.2 | ||
| Years of experience | ||||
| >15 years | 56.7 ± 20.9 | 0.062 | 67.6 ± 6.6 | 0.918 |
| 11–15 years | 61.6 ± 22.4 | 68.4 ± 9.9 | ||
| 6–10 years | 55.7 ± 21.8 | 68.0 ± 8.6 | ||
| 1–5 years | 61.6 ± 21.8 | 68.6 ± 8.5 | ||
| Less than 1 year | 51.0 ± 21.8 | 68.3 ± 6.9 | ||
| Number of published research | ||||
| >50 | 59.8 ± 22.5 | 0.064 | 66.2 ± 6.7 | 0.282 |
| 31–50 | 56.8 ± 14.5 | 66.6 ± 7.6 | ||
| 21–30 | 65.6 ± 16.0 | 67.5 ± 7.1 | ||
| 11–20 | 61.3 ± 19.9 | 67.6 ± 8.8 | ||
| 6–10 | 59.8 ± 20.7 | 68.0 ± 8.5 | ||
| 1–5 | 56.2 ± 21.0 | 68.7 ± 9.1 | ||
| None | 53.6 ± 18.6 | 70.0 ± 6.3 | ||
a
A p-value <0.05 indicates statistical significance, calculated by either an independent t-test or ANOVA when appropriate.