Table 8.
Association between participants’ awareness score percentage and their characteristics
| Variable | Characteristics | Participants awareness scorea N (%) | Chi-square test | P | |
| Median ≤ 50% | Median > 50% | ||||
| Gender | Male | 109 (48) | 118 (52) | 47.34 | 0.759 |
| Female | 85 (57) | 64 (43) | |||
| Age | 20–25 | 76 (64.4) | 42 (35.6) | 242.34 | 0.144 |
| 26–30 | 72 (60.5) | 47 (39.5) | |||
| 31–35 | 26 (35.6) | 47 (64.4) | |||
| 36–40 | 10 (29.4) | 24 (70.6) | |||
| 41 or more | 10 (31.2) | 22 (68.8) | |||
| Nationality | Saudi | 173 (54.2) | 146 (45.8) | 48.17 | 0.731 |
| Non-Saudi | 21 (36.8) | 36 (63.2) | |||
| Education | Diploma | 13 (72.2) | 5 (27.8) | 341.11 | 0.000* |
| BSc | 162 (65) | 87 (35) | |||
| DPT | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66.7) | |||
| MSc | 15 (20) | 60 (80) | |||
| PhD | 3 (9.7) | 28 (90.3) | |||
| Work setting | Ministry of Health | 92 (60.1) | 61 (39.9) | 197.36 | 0.043* |
| Private health sectors | 34 (54.8) | 26 (45.2) | |||
| Other health sectors | 52 (52) | 48 (48) | |||
| University ‘academic’ | 14 (23) | 47 (77) | |||
| Job title | Technician | 18 (69.2) | 8 (30.8) | 511.75 | 0.000* |
| Specialist | 145 (60.4) | 95 (39.6) | |||
| Senior Specialist | 14 (31.8) | 30 (68.2) | |||
| Consultant | 2 (25) | 6 (75) | |||
| Teaching Assistant | 9 (42.9) | 12 (57.1) | |||
| Lecturer | 4 (21) | 15 (79) | |||
| Assistant Professor | 2 (18.2) | 9 (81.8) | |||
| Associate Professor | 0 (0) | 7 (100) | |||
| EBP training | Yes | 20 (17.9) | 92 (82.1) | 149.67 | 0.000* |
| No | 174 (66) | 90 (34) | |||
aMedian awareness score among participants in this study was 50%.
*Statistically significant difference.