Table 5:
Factors affecting malaria knowledge and prevention practice
| Malaria knowledge | Malaria prevention practice | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | SE | t | P | β | SE | t | P | |
| Rank 1 | .13 | .46 | 2.12* | .035 | .11 | .45 | 1.85 | .065 |
| Rank 2 | .13 | .32 | 2.14* | .033 | .11 | .31 | 1.82 | .070 |
| Level of education | .24 | .30 | 4.20*** | .000 | −.05 | .30 | −.88 | .380 |
| Experience of malaria education | .21 | .31 | 3.58*** | .000 | .22 | .30 | 3.89*** | .000 |
| Malaria knowledge | .25 | .06 | 4.37*** | .000 | ||||
| F(p) | F=9.62 (p=.000) | F=12.45 (p=.000) | ||||||
| R2 | R2=.12 | R2=.18 | ||||||
| Note: Rank 1(0=others, 1=sergeant or more), Rank 2(0=others, 1=corporal) | ||||||||
| Level of education (0=High school, two year college, 1=University or more) | ||||||||