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. 2015 Jul 25;12(1):70–76. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2015.1069932

Table 4.

Hepatitis B discrimination level of participants with different characteristics (N = 6538)

  Mild/without
Medium
Severe
Variable n % n % n %
Male 561 21.73 609 23.59 1412 54.69
Female 687 17.37 921 23.28 2348 59.35
Age 18–28 242 24.42 300 30.27 449 45.31
Age 28–38 334 24.58 376 27.67 649 47.76
Age 38–48 295 17.45 380 22.47 1016 60.08
Age 48–58 208 16.07 264 20.40 822 63.52
Age 58- 169 14.05 210 17.46 824 68.50
Low education 474 17.34 527 19.28 1732 63.37
Medium education 502 17.50 739 25.77 1627 56.73
High education 272 29.03 264 28.18 401 42.80
Farmer 724 16.83 937 21.78 2641 61.39
Unemployed 89 20.00 108 24.27 248 55.73
Migratory workers 186 21.11 231 26.22 464 52.67
Other occupation 191 25.30 210 27.81 354 46.89
Public officers 58 37.42 44 28.39 53 34.19
Without vaccination history 937 17.70 1184 22.36 3174 59.94
Received vaccination 311 25.02 346 27.84 586 47.14
Household income group 1 150 16.69 197 21.91 552 61.40
Household income group 2 287 20.28 331 23.39 797 56.33
Household income group 3 280 17.85 358 22.82 931 59.34
Household income group 4 294 18.89 371 23.84 891 57.26
Household income group 5 237 21.57 273 24.84 589 53.59
Knowledge of true transm. route 1 392 19.43 406 20.13 1219 60.44
Knowledge of true transm. route 2 499 20.38 637 26.01 1313 53.61
Knowledge of true transm. route 3 357 17.23 487 23.50 1228 59.27
Knowledge of false transm. route 1 241 12.51 407 21.12 1279 66.37
Knowledge of false transm. route 2 499 20.62 635 26.24 1286 53.14
Knowledge of false transm. route 3 508 23.19 488 22.27 1195 54.54
Knowledge of true symptoms 1 742 19.47 830 21.78 2239 58.75
Knowledge of true symptoms 2 302 17.74 472 27.73 928 54.52
Knowledge of true symptoms 3 204 19.90 228 22.24 593 57.85
No fear of being infected with HBV 1059 32.22 1022 31.09 1206 36.69
Fear of being infected with HBV 189 5.81 508 15.63 2554 78.56