College students responding to the Chinese version of Cardiff fertility knowledge scale show deficiencies in their awareness: a cross-sectional survey in Hunan, China

Table 3 Univariate analysis for factors related to fertility knowledge

Variables (Sociodemographic)		CFKS-C^# (Mean + SD)	T/F value	p-value
Gender	Male	48.5 (22.9)	−1.514	0.131
Gender	Female	50.8 (19.0)
Place of birth	City district	52.4 (20.4)	2.910	0.004*
Place of birth	Not in the city district	48.1 (20.9)
Only child	Yes	48.7 (21.4)	−1.064	0.288
Only child	No	50.4 (20.5)
Sexual orientation	Heterosexual	49.7 (20.8)	1.223^#	0.295
	Homosexual	45.6 (23.7)
	Bisexual	53.7 (19.2)
Relationship	Single	48.6 (20.1)	−2.565	0.011*
Relationship	Non-single	52.7 (21.9)
Discipline	Non-medicine	46.8 (20.9)	−5.887	0.000*
Discipline	Medicine	55.72 (19.4)
Year of study	1	47.1 (20.8)c	6.8576^#	0.000*
	2	52.1 (20.9)b
	3	50.4 (19.0)b
	4 or above	57.6 (19.6)a

CFKS-C Chinese version of the Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale
^# the average percent correct score on the CFKS-C
T/F value: the value of T-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA)
* p < 0.05; SD, standard deviation; ^#, F value
a, b, c: different letters at the end of figure on the same column indicate significant differences(P < 0.05)

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