Table 3.
Participants' knowledge towards human Monkeypox according to demographics.
Human Monkeypox knowledge score | |||||
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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