Table 4. Cross-tabulation between low/medium, high practice score categories and sociodemographic characteristics (n = 384).
| Variables | Low/Medium n (%) |
High n (%) |
p - value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (in years) | |||
| Less than 30 | 52 (36.1) | 92 (63.9) | |
| 30 to 39 | 77 (57.9) | 56 (42.1) | 0.001* |
| 40 and above | 65 (60.7) | 42 (39.3) | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 97 (42.2) | 133 (57.8) | 0.008* |
| Female | 97 (63.0) | 57 (37.0) | |
| Nationality | 0.001* | ||
| Saudi | 110 (40.3) | 163 (59.7) | |
| Non-Saudi | 84 (75.7) | 27 (24.3) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Single | 67 (40.1) | 100 (59.9) | |
| Married | 104 (58.8) | 73 (41.2) | 0.020* |
| Divorced/Widowed | 23 (57.5) | 17 (42.5) | |
| Education | |||
| Diploma | 32 (39.0) | 50 (61.0) | 0.092 |
| Bachelors | 129 (55.6) | 103 (44.4) | |
| Masters and above | 33 (47.1) | 37 (52.9) | |
| HCW category | |||
| Physicians | 47 (40.5) | 69 (59.5) | 0.071 |
| Nursing and midwife | 76 (55.1) | 62 (44.9) | |
| Pharmacist | 29 (60.4) | 19 (39.6) | |
| Lab technicians | 18 (58.1) | 13 (41.9) | |
| Other categories | 24 (47.1) | 27(52.9) | |
| Work settings | |||
| Primary health centers (PHC) | 71 (55.9) | 56 (44.1) | 0.323 |
| General hospital | 67 (47.2) | 75 (52.8) | |
| Tertiary care hospital | 56 (48.7) | 59 (51.3) | |
| Work experience (in years) | |||
| Less than 5 | 44 (34.6) | 83 (65.4) | 0.001* |
| 5 to 10 | 81 (60.9) | 52 (39.1) | |
| More than 10 | 69 (55.6) | 55 (44.1) |
Notes.
*
Significant p-value (<0.05) from Chi-square test.