Table 3.
Knowledge of cancer by demographic characteristics among nurses
| Variables | n = 137 | Knowledge of causes | Knowledge of symptoms | ||
| Adequate n (%) | p-value | Adequate n (%) | p-value | ||
| Age | |||||
| < 30 | 8 | 7 (87.5%) | 1 (12.5%) | ||
| 30 – 40 | 44 | 16 (36.4%) | 11 (25.0%) | ||
| >40 | 85 | 40 (47.1%) | 0.027 | 32 (37.6%) | 0.163 |
| Cadre | |||||
| Enrolled | 70 | 28 (40.0%) | 15 (21.4%) | ||
| Registered | 67 | 35 (52.2%) | 0.151 | 29 (43.3%) | 0.006 |
| Department | |||||
| OG | 24 | 8 (33.3%) | 9 (37.5%) | ||
| Medicine | 47 | 23 (48.9%) | 15 (31.9%) | ||
| Surgery | 36 | 17 (47.2%) | 10 (27.8%) | ||
| Pediatrics | 30 | 15 (50.0%) | 0.587 | 10 (33.3%) | 0.885 |
| Work experience | |||||
| ≤10 | 26 | 15 (57.7%) | 6 (23.1%) | ||
| 11 – 20 | 38 | 17 (44.7%) | 13 (34.2%) | ||
| >20 | 73 | 31 (42.5%) | 0.402 | 25 (34.2%) | 0.548 |