Table 4.
Association between knowledge score and sociodemographic profile
| Knowledge n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic profile | Poor | Good | p Value |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 31 (25.6) | 90 (74.4) | |
| Female | 108 (31.6) | 234 (68.4) | 0.25 |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Malay | 45 (24.6) | 138 (75.4) | |
| Chinese | 42 (30.7) | 95 (69.3) | 0.14 |
| Indian | 46 (36.8) | 79 (63.2) | |
| Others | 5 (33.3) | 10 (66.7) | |
| Age (years) ±SD | 33.3±4.6 | 33.8±4.7 | 0.07 |
| Years of practice (years) ±SD | 4.6±4.1 | 5.2±4.3 | 0.09 |
| Working sectors | |||
| Government clinic | 71 (30.1) | 165 (69.9) | |
| General practitioners | 43 (33.9) | 84 (66.1) | 0.31 |
| Hospital | 25 (24.5) | 77 (75.5) | |
| Number of patients per day | |||
| <20 | 9 (33.3) | 18 (66.7) | |
| 21–40 | 46 (26.6) | 127 (73.4) | 0.18 |
| 41–60 | 43 (27.6) | 113 (72.4) | |
| 61–80 | 22 (31.4) | 48 (68.6) | |
| 81–100 | 17 (48.6) | 18 (51.4) | |
| >100 | 2 (40) | 3 (60) | |
| Awareness of Malaysian CPG | |||
| Yes | 130 (28.6) | 324 (71.4) | |
| No | 9 (81.8) | 2 (18.2) | <0.001 |
| Use of guideline | |||
| Yes | 122 (27.4) | 323 (72.6) | <0.001 |
| No | 17 (81.0) | 4 (19.0) | |
CPG, Clinical Practice Guideline.