Table 3.
Chi-square analysis for association of knowledge scores with age group, gender, marital status, place of residence, designation, length of service, and educational qualification
| Parameter | Knowledge score groups | χ2, P | |||||
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| Count | Percentage | Count | Percentage | Count | Percentage | ||
| Age (years) | |||||||
| 25-35 | 14 | 9.8 | 100 | 69.9 | 29 | 20.3 | 4.9522, 0.2923 |
| 36-45 | 6 | 14.6 | 31 | 75.6 | 4 | 9.8 | |
| 46-55 | 1 | 4.8 | 18 | 85.7 | 2 | 9.5 | |
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 4 | 12.5 | 23 | 71.9 | 5 | 15.6 | 0.2384, 0.8876 |
| Female | 17 | 9.8 | 126 | 72.8 | 30 | 17.3 | |
| Marital status | |||||||
| Married | 17 | 10.4 | 120 | 73.2 | 27 | 16.5 | 1.6214, 0.9510 |
| Unmarried | 4 | 10.5 | 26 | 68.4 | 8 | 21.1 | |
| Divorcee | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Widow | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Resident | |||||||
| Urban | 14 | 9.0 | 116 | 74.8 | 25 | 16.1 | 1.6489, 0.4385 |
| Rural | 7 | 14.0 | 33 | 66.0 | 10 | 20.0 | |
| Education qualification | |||||||
| GNM | 10 | 7.6 | 96 | 72.7 | 26 | 19.7 | 12.0545, 0.0169 |
| BSc | 1 | 5.0 | 13 | 65.0 | 6 | 30.0 | |
| MSc | 10 | 18.9 | 40 | 75.5 | 3 | 5.7 | |
| Designation | |||||||
| Staff nurse | 21 | 10.6 | 143 | 72.2 | 34 | 17.2 | 0.9447, 0.6235 |
| Nursing sister | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 85.7 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Length of service (years) | |||||||
| 0-5 | 11 | 12.1 | 58 | 63.7 | 22 | 24.2 | 11.2156, 0.0819 |
| 6-10 | 3 | 5.8 | 43 | 82.7 | 6 | 11.5 | |
| 11-15 | 6 | 16.2 | 26 | 70.3 | 5 | 13.5 | |
| More than 15 | 1 | 4.0 | 22 | 88.0 | 2 | 8.0 | |