Table 2.
Association Between Socio Demographics, History, Lifestyle Variables and the Overall Knowledge Score Percent and a Multivariate Analysis of Overall Knowledge
| Overall Knowledge | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤56.67 N=204 | >56.67 N=167 | ||||
| Socio-demographic | Age | ≥40 | 90 (44.3) | 79 (47.6) | 0.53 |
| Education | School | 69 (35.2) | 28 (17.5) | 0.0002 | |
| University | 127 (64.8) | 132 (82.5) | |||
| Marital status | Single | 88 (43.8) | 71 (42.5) | 0.36 | |
| Married | 95 (47.3) | 87 (52.1) | |||
| Other | 18 (9.0) | 9 (5.4) | |||
| Number of children | Any | 99 (48.5) | 82 (49.1) | 0.91 | |
| Lifestyle | Smoking | 103 (52.3) | 55 (33.3) | 0.0003 | |
| Alcohol | 51 (26.0) | 40 (24.4) | 0.72 | ||
| Exercise | 124 (62.6) | 122 (74.4) | 0.02 | ||
| Cancer history | First degree FH | 19 (9.3) | 16 (9.6) | 0.93 | |
| Multivariate analysis, high vs low | |||||
| OR (95%CI) | |||||
| Education | 2.2 (1.3–3.6) | 0.002 | |||
| Smoking | 0.5 (0.3–0.8) | 0.003 | |||
Variables included in the model were: Age (reference : <40); Education (reference: School education); Marital status (reference: single); number children (reference: any); First degree; Smoking; Alcohol; Exercise