Table 3.
Attitude of the study participants toward coronavirus disease 2019 according to demographic factors
| Factors | Attitudes, n (%) or mean±SD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B1: Success in controlling | B2: Wining confidence | ||||
| Agree | Disagree | Don’t know | Yes | No | |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 190 (94.52) | 3 (1.48) | 8 (3.98) | 137 (68.15) | 64 (31.84) |
| Female | 163 (88.58) | 5 (2.717) | 16 (8.69)* | 146 (79.34) | 38 (20.65) |
| Age (years) | |||||
| ≤30 | 76 (69.09) | 6 (5.45) | 28 (25.45) | 68 (61.81) | 42 (38.18) |
| >30 | 258 (93.81) | 5 (1.81) | 12 (4.36)** | 253 (92.0) | 22 (8.0) |
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 218 (78.41) | 9 (3.23) | 51 (18.34) | 234 (84.17) | 44 (15.82) |
| Not married | 87 (81.30) | 4 (3.73) | 16 (14.95) | 89 (83.17) | 18 (16.82) |
| Occupation | |||||
| Physician | 122 (77.70) | 5 (3.18) | 30 (19.10) | 143 (91.08) | 14 (8.91) |
| Nurse | 181 (79.38) | 4 (1.75) | 43 (18.85) | 189 (82.89) | 39 (17.10)* |
| Work experience (years) | |||||
| <5 | 65 (66.32) | 7 (7.14) | 26 (26.53) | 58 (59.18) | 40 (40.81) |
| 5-10 | 157 (89.20) | 4 (2.27) | 15 (8.52) | 156 (88.63) | 20 (11.36) |
| >10 | 97 (87.38) | 3 (2.70) | 11 (9.90)*** | 91 (81.98) | 20 (18.01) |
| COVID-19 | |||||
| Knowledge score | 10.6±1.4 | 10.5±1.2 | 10.3±2.0*** | 10.7±1.4 | 10.1±2.4** |
*Statistically significant difference at P<0.05, **Statistically significant difference at P<0.01, ***Statistically significant difference at P<0.001. SD=Standard deviation, COVID-19=Coronavirus disease 2019