Table 5.
Characteristics of the study participants in relation to knowledge, attitude, and practice of occupational health and safety
| Variables | Knowledge Mean ± SD |
P-value | Attitude Mean ± SD |
P-value | Practice Mean ± SD |
P-value |
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 78.4±12.4 | 81.0±7.8 | 78.6±8.5 | |||
| Female | 78.2±13.0 | .936 | 80.5±6.9 | .710 | 81.8±7.3 | .017 |
| Age | ||||||
| 18–19 years | 75.5±13.8 | 80.9±6.6 | 81.1±6.4 | |||
| 20–21 years | 80.1±12.7 | 80.8±7.8 | 81.3±8.8 | |||
| 22–24 years | 79.9±11.0 | .082 | 80.9±7.1 | .504 | 81.2±7.3 | .992 |
| > 25 years | 75.3±12.9 | 78.8±5.8 | 81.2±6.2 | |||
| Education Program Type | ||||||
| Diploma | 78.1±13.8 | .854 | 81.3±6.9 | .026 | 81.1±7.6 | .968 |
| Bachelor | 78.4±10.4 | 78.9±7.3 | 81.2±7.5 | |||
| Academic level | ||||||
| First year | 77.2±15.6 | 81.3±7.4 | 81.5±6.8 | |||
| Second year | 79.1±11.9 | 81.3±6.8 | 81.6±7.9 | |||
| Third year | 78.7±11.3 | .818 | 77.8±6.8 | .055 | 79.4±7.5 | .589 |
| Fourth year | 77.8±9.7 | 79.3±7.4 | 81.2±8.5 | |||
| Needle stick or sharp object injury | ||||||
| Have experience | 75.8±11.3 | 79.7±8.6 | 81.7±7.1 | |||
| Don't have experience | 78.6±13.0 | .296 | 80.8±6.7 | .433 | 77.8±10.0 | .015 |
| Place of clinical training | ||||||
| Government hospital | 77.1±13.6 | 80.4±7.5 | 81.1±7.3 | |||
| Primary Health Center(PHC) | 81.7±8.5 | 79.8±5.8 | 82.8±7.5 | |||
| UNRWA center | 80.9±8.2 | 84.5±8.9 | 82.6±7.9 | |||
| All of the above | 82.5±9.9 | .203 | 81.9±5.3 | .626 | 81.5±8.9 | .633 |
| Safety precautions course during clinical training | ||||||
| have attended | 79.3±12.1 | .002 | 80.9±6.8 | .017 | 81.6±7.1 | .016 |
| Did not attend | 65.9±14.8 | 76.7±6.1 | 77.1±10.9 | |||
SD: standard deviation; UNRWA: United Nations Relief and Works Agency; all of the above: (GH, PHC, and UNRWA center). Data are expressed as mean values ± SD for continuous variables. The differences between means were tested using the independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA