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Table 5 Differences of HAS-A awareness by social characteristics

From: Development of questionnaire on awareness and action towards symptoms and risk factors of heart attack and stroke among a Malaysian population

Parameters

Number of respondents

Awareness of all five HAS and action

(Mean Rank)

Awareness of all five HAS and action

(Median)

P-value

Education

 Lower school

7

45.00

0

0.001 *

 High school

49

45.00

0

 Undergraduate

12

52.00

2

 Diploma

18

45.00

0

 Master

7

58.29

2

 PHD

Employments

 House wife

2

46.50

0

0.01 *

 Employed

59

47.31

1

 Self-employed

13

46.50

0

 Unemployed

3

46.50

0

 Students

13

50.19

1

 Retired

6

62.50

2

Diabetic

 Yes

11

55.23

2

0.014 **

 No

85

47.63

2

Dyslipidemia

 Yes

15

56.10

3

0.001 **

 No

81

47.09

1

  1. *Kruskal-Wallis test, **Mann- Whitney U test
  2. HAS heart attack symptoms, HAS-A HAS and appropriate action
  3. Values in bold are statistically significant