Table 2. Cross-tabulation between low/medium, high knowledge score categories and sociodemographic characteristics (n = 384).
| Variables | Low/Medium n (%) |
High n (%) |
p - value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (in years) | |||
| Less than 30 | 100 (69.4) | 44 (30.6) | |
| 30 to 39 | 56 (42.1) | 77 (57.9) | 0.001* |
| 40 and above | 47 (43.9) | 60 (56.1) | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 121 (52.6) | 109 (47.4) | 0.917 |
| Female | 82 (53.2) | 72 (46.8) | |
| Nationality | |||
| Saudi | 165 (60.4) | 108 (39.6) | 0.001* |
| Non-Saudi | 38 (34.2) | 73 (65.8) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Single | 106(63.5) | 61 (36.5) | |
| Married | 75 (42.4) | 102 (57.6) | 0.090 |
| Divorced/Widowed | 22 (55.5) | 18 (45) | |
| Education | |||
| Diploma | 57 (69.5) | 25 (30.5) | |
| Bachelors | 122 (52.6) | 110 (47.4) | 0.018* |
| Masters and above | 24 (34.3) | 46 (65.7) | |
| HCW category | |||
| Physicians | 57 (49.1) | 59 (50.9) | |
| Nursing and midwife | 70 (50.7) | 68 (49.3) | 0.307 |
| Pharmacist | 24 (50.0) | 24 (50.0) | |
| Lab technicians | 19 (61.3) | 12 (38.7) | |
| Other categories | 33 (64.7) | 18 (35.3) | |
| Work settings | |||
| Primary health centers (PHC) | 70 (55.1) | 57 (44.9) | |
| General hospital | 80 (56.3) | 62 (43.7) | 0.216 |
| Tertiary care hospital | 53 (46.1) | 62 (53.9 | |
| Work experience (in years) | |||
| Less than 5 | 85 (66.9) | 42 (33.1) | |
| 5 to 10 | 66 (49.6) | 67 (50.4) | 0.001* |
| More than 10 | 52 (41.9) | 72 (58.1) |
Notes.
*
Significant p-value (<0.05) from Chi-square test.