Table 3.

Level of knowledge, attitude, and prevention behavior according to demographic characteristics (N=613).

Variables	Characteristics	N (%)	Knowledge			Practice			Attitude			eHEALS
			Mean rank	Zmwu	P	Mean rank	Zmwu	P	Mean rank	Zmwu	P	Mean rank	Zmwu	P
Sex	Male	195 (31.8)	290.15	−1.62	0.105	259.93	−4.50	0.000**	261.94	−4.31	0.000**	274.90	−3.11	0.002**
	Female	418 (68.2)	314.86			328.96			328.02			321.97
Living areas	City	220 (35.9)	307.11	−0.01	0.991	347.73	−4.27	0.000**	312.43	−0.57	0.570	312.45	−0.58	0.563
	Country-side	393 (64.1)	306.94			284.20			303.96			303.95
Clinical practice experienced	Yes	284 (46.3)	358.25	−6.71	0.000**	321.55	−1.89	0.058	335.43	−3.70	0.000**	325.41	−2.43	0.015*
	No	329 (53.7)	262.76			294.44			282.46			291.11
eHEALS	Low	281 (45.9)	272.44	−4.48	0.000**	241.23	−8.48	0.000**	245.77	−7.89	0.000**	141.00	−21.66	0.000**
	High	332 (54.1)	336.25			362.67			358.83			447.50
Variables	Characteristics	N (%)	Knowledge			Practice			Attitude			eHEALS
			Mean rank	χ2kw	P	Mean rank	χ2kw	P	Mean	χ2kw	P	Mean rank	χ2kw	P
Grade	First year	161 (26.3)	241.31	53.40	0.000**	310.24	5.104	0.164	288.82	12.68	0.005**	314.61	9.88	0.02*
	Second year	175 (28.5)	281.20			283.64			280.69			273.70
	Third year	124 (20.2)	353.45			328.39			342.98			313.85
	Fourth year	153 (25.0)	367.99			312.97			327.06			331.53
Current	Good	502 (81.9)	309.81	2.32	0.314	318.77	12.303	0.002**	320.66	17.01	0.000**	325.28	30.47	0.000**
Health status	Neither good nor bad	90 (14.7)	304.51			254.23			250.63			226.81
	Bad	21 (3.4)	250.50			251.79			221.95			213.79

Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test.

^*P<0.05;

^**P<0.01.