Table 2.
Association between knowledge of Transplant and Socio-demographic characteristics
| Variable | Knowledge of corneal transplant | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Freq(%) | x2 | P-Value | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 14 (21.88) | 9.745 | 0.002* |
| Female | 16 (52.94) | ||
| Ethnicity | |||
| Akans | 17 (26.98) | ||
| Ga/ Adangme | 6 (75) | ||
| Ewe | 3 (37.50) | 15.294 | 0.018* |
| Guans | 0 (0) | ||
| Nzema | 0 (0) | ||
| Other | 6 (60) | ||
| Educational Level | |||
| No formal Education | 0 (0) | ||
| Elementary | 1 (20) | ||
| Junior High | 0 (0) | 25.151 | 0.001* |
| Senior High | 0 (0) | ||
| Vocational | 2 (40) | ||
| Training | 4 (44.44) | ||
| Polytechnic | 1 (11.11) | ||
| University | 24 (54.54) | ||
| Residence | |||
| Rural | 6 (23.08) | 1.925 | 0.165 |
| Urban | 26 (38.24) | ||
| Marital Status | |||
| Single | 25 (39.68) | 5.000 | 0.172 |
| Married | 6 (20.69) | ||
| Divorced | 1 (50) | ||
| Widowed | 0 (0) | ||
| Age-Range (years) | |||
| ≤ 20 | 1 (33.33) | 4.938 | 0.424 |
| 21–30 | 24 (40) | ||
| 31–40 | 5 (26.31) | ||
| 41–50 | 1 (14.29) | ||
| 51–60 | 1 (14.29) | ||
| ≥ 60 | 0 (0) | ||
| Religion | |||
| Christian | 26 (32.10) | 2.061 | 0.357 |
| Muslim | 5 (25) | ||
| Traditionalist | 1 (100) | ||
*significant at p < 0.05, x2 Chi-square value, Freq Frequency,Variable-socio demographic characteristics, % 01Percentage