Table 3.
Participants' knowledge towards human Monkeypox according to demographics.
| Human Monkeypox knowledge score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic Variables | N | Mean± SD | Median | P- value | |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 208 | 18.32 | 4.25 | 19 | 0.004* |
| Female | 350 | 19.29 | 3.62 | 20 | |
| Nationality | 0.360 | ||||
| African | 61 | 18.21 | 4.01 | 19 | |
| Arabic | 243 | 18.80 | 4.27 | 20 | |
| Asian | 30 | 19.23 | 3.20 | 20 | |
| Emirati | 161 | 19.34 | 3.67 | 20 | |
| Western | 63 | 18.90 | 2.93 | 19 | |
| Major | |||||
| Medical colleges | 245 | 19.72 | 3.79 | 20 | <0.001* |
| Non-medical colleges | 313 | 18.30 | 3.86 | 19 | |
| Study level | |||||
| First years | 340 | 18.65 | 4.16 | 19 | 0.036* |
| Last years | 218 | 19.36 | 3.39 | 20 | |
| History of human chickenpox | <0.001* | ||||
| Yes | 84 | 22.86 | 2.98 | 23 | |
| No | 474 | 18.23 | 3.61 | 19 | |
| Had you ever received information of human Monkeypox during education | |||||
| Yes | 383 | 19.24 | 3.91 | 20 | 0.005* |
| No | 175 | 18.24 | 3.76 | 19 | |
Notes: P-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant, P-values obtained from the Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests