Table 3 Relationship between nutritional knowledge and attitude with demographic characteristics (N = 220)
Characteristics | Knowledge scores | p-value* | Attitude scores | p-value* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Weak < 68% | Average 68–76% | Good 77–83% | Very good > 83% | Undesirable ≤ 40% | Desirable 41–60% | Very favorable ≥ 61% | |||
Age | |||||||||
< 25 | 55 (46.21%) | 49 (41.17%) | 9 (7.56%) | 6 (5.04%) | 0.035 | 0 (0.00%) | 11 (9.24%) | 108 (90.75%) | 0.233 |
≥ 25 | 61 (60.39%) | 31 (30.69%) | 9 (8.91%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (0.99%) | 4 (3.96%) | 96 (95.04%) | ||
Field | |||||||||
Extern | 64 (49.61%) | 50 (38.76%) | 9 (6.98%) | 6 (4.65%) | 0 (0.00%) | 12 (9.30%) | 117 (90.69%) | 0.178 | |
Intern | 52 (57.14%) | 30 (32.98%) | 9 (9.89%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0.261 | 1 (1.09%) | 3 (3.29%) | 87 (95.60%) | |
Sex | |||||||||
Male | 55 (57.29%) | 27 (28.12%) | 10 (10.41%) | 4 (4.16%) | 0.568 | 0 (0.00%) | 12 (12.50%) | 84 (87.50%) | 0.010 |
Female | 61 (49.19%) | 53 (42.74%) | 8 (6.45%) | 2 (1.61%) | 1 (0.80%) | 3 (2.41%) | 120 (96.77%) | ||
Marital status | |||||||||
Single | 89 (52.35%) | 63 (37.05%) | 12 (7.05%) | 6 (3.52%) | 0.894 | 1 (0.58%) | 10 (5.88%) | 159 (93.52%) | 0.199 |
Married | 26 (55.31%) | 15 (31.91%) | 6 (12.76%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 4 (8.51%) | 43 (91.48%) | ||
Other | 1 (33.33%) | 2 (66.66%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (33.33%) | 2 (66.66%) | ||