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. 2022 Aug 29;15(10):1065–1071. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2022.08.015

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