Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of all participants from the eight hospitals (n = 396).
| Characteristic | Total (n) | Type of Work |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical, n (%) | Non-Medical, n (%) | |||
| Average age | 33.3 (SD = 8.8) | 32.3 (SD = 9.8) | ||
| Sex | 0.069 | |||
| Male | 215 | 171 (79.5) | 44 (20.5) | |
| Female | 178 | 130 (73.0) | 48 (27.0) | |
| Prefer not to say | 3 | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66.6) | |
| Marital status | 0.007 | |||
| Married | 189 | 150 (79.4) | 39 (20.6) | |
| Single | 143 | 114 (79.7) | 29 (20.3) | |
| Cohabiting | 29 | 17 (58.6) | 12 (41.4) | |
| Separated/divorced | 35 | 21 (60.0) | 14 (40.0) | |
| Religion | 0.000 | |||
| Christian | 333 | 267 (80.2) | 66 (19.8) | |
| Muslim | 62 | 34 (54.8) | 28 (45.2) | |
| Others | 1 | 1 (100.0) | --- | |
| Education level | 0.000 | |||
| Certificate | 100 | 51 (51.0) | 49 (49.0) | |
| Diploma | 125 | 109 (87.2) | 16 (12.8) | |
| Bachelors | 120 | 99 (82.5) | 21 (17.5) | |
| Masters | 43 | 40 (93.0) | 3 (7.0) | |
| PhD | 3 | 3 (100.0) | --- | |
| Others | 5 | --- | 5 (100.0) | |
| Study site/region | 0.097 | |||
| Northern region | ||||
| Gulu | 36 | 25 (69.4) | 11 (30.5) | |
| Lira | 50 | 34 (68.0) | 16 (32.0) | |
| Eastern region | ||||
| Jinja | 50 | 45 (90.0) | 5 (10.0) | |
| Mbale | 60 | 42 (60.0) | 18 (40.0) | |
| Central region | ||||
| Masaka | 31 | 21 (67.7) | 10 (32.3) | |
| Mubende | 50 | 39 (78.0) | 11 (22.0) | |
| South-western region | ||||
| Mbarara | 67 | 55 (82.1) | 12 (17.9) | |
| KIUTH | 52 | 41 (78.8) | 11 (21.2) | |
| Residence | 0.050 | |||
| Within hospital | 88 | 74 (84.1) | 14 (15.9) | |
| Outside hospital | 308 | 228 (74.0) | 80 (26.0) | |