Table 2.
Relationship between knowledge, attitude and readiness to practice scores with the respondents’ demographic and academic profiles.
| Characteristics | Subitem | Knowledge (K) Score (n = 310) |
p-Value | Attitude (A) Score (n = 310) |
p-Value | Readiness to Practice (rP) Score (n = 310) |
p-Value | Total KArP Score (n = 306) |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | r = −0.637 | 0.000 * | r = −0.153 | 0.007 * | r = −0.243 | 0.000 * | r = −0.354 | 0.000 * | |
| median | median | median | median | ||||||
| Gender | Female | 28.0 | 0.654 ** | 36.0 | 0.250 ** | 28.0 | 0.545 ** | 90.0 | 0.456 ** |
| Male | 27.0 | 36.0 | 29.5 | 92.0 | |||||
| Degree Major | Pharmacy | 32.0 | 0.000 *** | 39.0 | 0.002 *** | 30.0 | 0.000 *** | 101.0 | 0.000 *** |
| Medicine | 26.0 | 35.0 | 27.0 | 90.0 | |||||
| Dental | 31.0 | 45.0 | 32.0 | 108.0 | |||||
| University | SUCP | 32.0 | 0.000 *** | 37.5 | 0.045 *** | 30.0 | 0.000 *** | 99.0 | 0.000 *** |
| NDC | 26.0 | 36.0 | 27.0 | 89.0 | |||||
| QAMC | 26.0 | 35.0 | 27.0 | 89.0 | |||||
| SKZMDC | 34.0 | 35.0 | 30.0 | 104.0 | |||||
| Academic Year | Second | 34.0 | 0.000 *** | 32.0 | 0.003 *** | 26.0 | 0.000 *** | 92.0 | 0.000 *** |
| Third | 31.0 | 36.0 | 30.0 | 96.0 | |||||
| Fourth | 27.0 | 37.0 | 28.0 | 90.0 | |||||
| Final | 26.0 | 33.0 | 27.0 | 89.0 |
Note: * Spearman rho test; ** Mann–Whitney test; *** Kruskal–Wallis test. p-value in bold means it is significant.