Table 5 Factors associated with good knowledge toward COVID-19 (N = 380)
From: Knowledge and practice of physicians during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in Lebanon
Knowledge | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor | Good | p-value | Adjusted OR (95%CI) | |
Gender | 0.55 | |||
Male | 27 (67.5) | 213 (62.3) | ||
Female | 13 (32.5) | 127 (37.4) | ||
Age categories (years) | 0.023* | |||
<40 | 27 (67.5) | 165 (48.5) | 1.00 | |
≥ 40 | 13 (32.5) | 175 (51.5) | 2.16 (1.08–4.34)* | |
Marital status | 0.80 | |||
Married | 27 (67.5) | 236 (69.4) | ||
Others | 13 (32.5) | 104 (30.6) | ||
Specialty | 0.3 | |||
General | 8 (20.0) | 47 (13.8) | ||
Practitioner | 32 (80.0) | 293 (86.2) | ||
Place of work | 0.18 | |||
Private hospitals | 30 (75.0) | 284 (83.5) | 1.00 | |
Public hospitals | 10 (25.0) | 56 (16.5) | 0.62 (0.28–1.34) | |
Frontline worker | 0.44 | |||
No | 11 (27.5) | 75 (22.1) | ||
Yes | 29 (72.5) | 265 (77.9) | ||
Years of experience (years) | 0.45 | |||
<10 | 23 (57.5) | 174 (51.2) | ||
≥ 10 | 17 (42.5) | 166 (48.8) | ||