Table 3.
Characteristics | N | % | Knowledge |
Mean Knowledge |
|||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor (<50) |
Moderate (50–75) |
High (>75) |
Mean ± SD | P-value | |||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||||
Gender | Male | 126 | 58.3 | 36 | 28.6 | 74 | 58.7 | 16 | 12.7 | 57.6 ± 15 | 0.5 |
Female | 90 | 41.7 | 30 | 33.3 | 54 | 60 | 6 | 6.7 | 56.4 ± 13 | ||
Nationality | Saudi | 77 | 35.6 | 21 | 27.3 | 49 | 63.6 | 7 | 9.1 | 57.6 ± 13 | 0.724 |
Others | 139 | 64.4 | 45 | 32.4 | 79 | 56.8 | 15 | 10.8 | 56.9 ± 14 | ||
Medical sub-specialty | Family medicine | 142 | 65.7 | 36 | 25.4 | 84 | 59.2 | 22 | 15.5 | 59 ± 14 | 0.003 |
Others | 74 | 34.3 | 30 | 40.5 | 44 | 59.5 | 0 | 0 | 53.3 ± 14 | ||
Years in practice | ⩽5 | 47 | 21.76 | 23 | 48.9 | 20 | 42.6 | 4 | 8.5 | 51.8 ± 17 | 0.006 |
6–10 | 43 | 19.9 | 9 | 20.9 | 32 | 74.4 | 2 | 4.7 | 57 ± 12 | ||
11–15 | 46 | 21.3 | 15 | 32.6 | 27 | 58.7 | 4 | 8.7 | 56.4 ± 12 | ||
>15 | 80 | 37 | 19 | 23.8 | 49 | 61.3 | 12 | 15 | 60.7 ± 13 |