Table 3.
Levels of knowledge of cardiovascular disease risk factors by socioeconomic status
| Level of knowledge | p value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Good | ||||
| Number (%) | Number (%) | ||||
| Total | 459 (75.0) | 152 (25.0) | 0.170 | ||
| Age group (years) | 103 (72.5) | 39 (27.5) | |||
| 25–34 | |||||
| 35–44 | 107 (69.9) | 46 (30.1) | |||
| 45–54 | 142 (78.5) | 39 (21.5) | |||
| 55–65 | 107 (79.3) | 28 (20.7) | |||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 239 (78.6) | 65 (21.4) | |||
| Female | 220 (71.3) | 87 (28.7) | 0.038 | ||
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 357 (74.1) | 125 (25.9) | |||
| Widow/divorced | 44 (86.3) | 7 (13.7) | |||
| Never married | 58 (74.4) | 20 (25.6) | 0.157 | ||
| Education level | |||||
| Below secondary | 48 (85.7) | 8 (14.3) | |||
| Secondary | 206 (76.3) | 64 (23.7) | |||
| College | 160 (78.0) | 45 (22.0) | |||
| University | 45 (56.2) | 35 (43.8) | <0.001 | ||
| Professional group | |||||
| Workera | 129 (78.7) | 35 (21.3) | |||
| Employee | 146 (68.5) | 67 (31.5) | |||
| Unemployed | 184 (78.6) | 50 (21.4) | 0.023 | ||
| Monthly family incomeb (tenge) | |||||
| <36,000 | 343 (77.6) | 99 (22.4) | |||
| ≥36,000 | 116 (68.6) | 53 (31.4) | 0.022 | ||
aWorker means ‘blue-collar workers’ engaged in hard physical labor, b1USD=120 tenge