Table 5. The association of demographic characteristics of healthcare professionals with their knowledge of herpes zoster vaccination (N = 281).
| Factors | Knowledge level | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insufficient | Sufficient | ||||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Age, years | 0.050 | ||||
| 25–30 | 35 | 33.3 | 40 | 22.7 | |
| 31–35 | 25 | 23.8 | 51 | 29.0 | |
| 36–40 | 22 | 21.0 | 37 | 21.0 | |
| 41–50 | 21 | 20.0 | 31 | 17.6 | |
| > 50 | 2 | 1.9 | 17 | 9.7 | |
| Sex | 0.038* | ||||
| Male | 53 | 50.5 | 111 | 63.1 | |
| Female | 52 | 49.5 | 65 | 36.9 | |
| Professional level | 0.027* | ||||
| General practitioner | 51 | 48.6 | 69 | 39.2 | |
| Family medicine junior resident | 22 | 21.0 | 23 | 13.1 | |
| Family medicine senior resident | 6 | 5.7 | 10 | 5.7 | |
| Family medicine specialist | 19 | 18.1 | 43 | 24.4 | |
| Family medicine consultant | 7 | 6.7 | 31 | 17.6 | |
| Nationality | 0.325 | ||||
| Saudi | 60 | 57.1 | 111 | 63.1 | |
| Non-Saudi | 45 | 42.9 | 65 | 36.9 | |
| Experience, years | 0.020* | ||||
| < 5 | 49 | 46.7 | 53 | 30.1 | |
| 5–10 | 27 | 25.7 | 58 | 33.0 | |
| > 10 | 29 | 27.6 | 65 | 36.9 | |
*Significant.