Knowledge, attitude and practice towards medicines among school teachers in Lalitpur district, Nepal before and after an educational intervention

Table 3 Comparison of median scores among different subgroups of respondents before and after intervention

Characteristic	Knowledge			Attitude			Practice			Total
	Before	After	P value	Before	After	P value	Before	After	P value	Before	After	P value
Gender ^⃰
Male	63	70	<0.001	23	28	<0.001	262	270	0.378	352	365	<0.001
Female	63	72	0.001	23	28	<0.001	270	270	0.277	356	366	<0.001
Age (in years) ^Δ
Below 20	63	55.5	0.805	21.5	28.5	0.015	270	270	0.592	349	364	0.144
21–30	63	70	<0.001	23	29	<0.001	270	260	0.547	356	358	0.046
31–40	63	70	<0.001	23	27	<0.001	260	270	0.159	346	372	<0.001
41–50	61.5	71	<0.001	23	27	<0.001	270	280	0.006	356	378.5	<0.001
51-60	63	70	0.949	22	23	1.000	290	210	0.027	363	286	0.062
Teachers^⃰
Primary	63	72	<0.001	23	28	<0.001	270	270	0.440	351	366	<0.001
Secondary	63	72	<0.001	24	28	<0.001	270	270	0.423	350	365	<0.001
Ethnic/Caste group^Δ
Brahmin	63	71.5	<0.001	23	29	<0.001	260	270	0.457	348	372	0.004
Chettri	63	74	<0.001	23	28	<0.001	260	270	0.509	351	372	<0.001
Newar	63	68	<0.001	23	27	<0.001	210	270	0.309	353	363	0.030
Others	64	74	<0.001	23	28	<0.001	260	270	0.665	325	355	0.411
Subject taught^Δ
Nepali	63	70	<0.001	23	29	<0.001	270	270	0.457	355	372	0.031
Science	63	73	<0.001	23	29	<0.001	270	290	0.455	352	385	0.001
Math	63	72	<0.001	24	29	<0.001	270	270	0.576	357	365	0.211
English	63	67	<0.001	22	26.5	<0.001	270	270	0.945	356	356	0.224
Others	62.5	72	<0.001	22.5	27	<0.001	265	275	0.157	349.5	371	<0.001
Qualifications^Δ
Intermediate	62.5	69	0.223	23	23	0.017	255	270	0.895	337	346	0.845
Bachelor	63	70	<0.001	23	28	<0.001	270	270	0.281	353	362	<0.001
Master	62.5	71	<0.001	23	28.5	<0.001	270	270	0.452	359	371	<0.001
Type of school ^⃰
Government	66	70	<0.004	22	28	<0.001	230	270	0.148	321	359	<0.001
Private	63	71	<0.001	23	28	<0.001	270	270	0.071	357	369	<0.001

⃰ Mann–Whitney test was used as there were only two subgroups in this category.
Δ Kruskal Wallis test was used as there were more than two subgroups in this category.

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