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Table 4.

Group differences in knowledge, attitudes and practices (n = 160).

		Knowledge						Attitudes						Practices
		Theoretical Knowledge			Practical Knowledge			Seriousness			Acceptability			Practices
Category	Group	Mean Rank	U or χ²	Post hoc ^†††	Mean Rank	U or χ²	Post hoc ^†††	Mean Rank	U or χ²	Post hoc ^†††	Mean Rank	U or χ²	Post hoc ^†††	Mean Rank	U or χ²	Post hoc ^†††
Sex ^†	Male	86.51	1291.5		96.61	817 **		86.15	1308.5		77.21	1728.5		61.56	2464 ***
Sex ^†	Female	78	1291.5		73.80	817 **		78.15	1308.5		81.87	1728.5		88.38	2464 ***
Age ^††	<25 years ^a	81.02	0.373		49.15	26.563 ***	a < c * a < b *	65.82	5.094		74.85	0.409		80.45	1.097
	25 years≤ <30 years ^b	78.48			87.48			81.23			79.42			74.99
	30 years≤ ^c	75.51			93.43			87.56			80.8			84.07
Experience ^††	<3 years ^a	84.30	4.483		71.73	7.126 *	a < c *	72.20	4.318		77.31	0.167		79.03	1.636
	3 years≤ <6 years ^b	73.26			81.06			83.54			8061			73.07
	6 years≤ ^c	67.52			98.57			91.76			78.65			87.59
Position ^††	Physician ^a	83.51	2.347		93.23	16.926 ***	b < a ***	86	3.128		80.69	0.04		69.81	8.561 *	a < b **
	Nurse ^b	73.68			63.86			77.45			80			91.63
	Others ^c	75.5			73.94			60.44			83.11			75.61
Department ^††	Medical ^a	77.50	19.154 **	c < b ***	101.86	21.344 ***	b < a *** c < a * b < c *	83.99	5.316		92.44	16.430 ***	b < a * c < a	88.54	3.739
	Surgical ^b	93.75			61.31			68.37			60.78			79.05
	Others ^c	61.69			80.93			86.06			88.52			70.44

p < 0.05 * p < 0.01 ** p < 0.001 ***, ^† Mann–Whitney test (U), ^†† Kruskal–Wallis test (χ2), ^††† Selected results of Dunn’s pairwise comparison post hoc test with Bonferroni adjustment. ^{a, b, c} For Dunn’s pairwise comparison test, subscript alphabets are assigned to each group.