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Table 4 Association of Knowledge with demographic and enabling factors

From: Knowledge and attitude on prevention of COVID-19 among community health workers in Nepal-a cross-sectional study

Variables

Categories

Knowledge

P-value

  

High

Low

 

Age

18–27

113

64

0.924

28–37

88

49

 

38–47

28

25

 

48 and above

13

9

 

Gender

Male

160

70

0.002

Female

92

77

 

Marital status

Married

142

104

0.008

Unmarried

108

42

 

Divorced

1

0

 

Widow

1

1

 

Designation

HA

81

37

< 0.001

AHW

56

31

 

ANM

41

56

 

Nursing staff

17

2

 

PHO

16

3

 

Others

41

18

 

Firstly, known Information about COVID-19

Social medias (FB/Twitter/ youtube/ instagram)

101

36

< 0.001

Television/ radio

134

110

 

Friends and relatives

6

1

 

scientific journals

11

0

 

working province

Province 2

86

37

< 0.001

Bagmati

111

49

 

Gandaki

5

1

 

Karnali

45

53

 

Sudurpaschim

5

7

 

Education level

Master

29

16

< 0.001

Bachelor

68

34

 

PCL

121

44

 

TSLC

34

53

 

Monthly income

25 K–35 K

118

66

0.005

35 K–45 K

45

47

 

45 K–55 K

44

18

 

Above 55 K

45

16

 

Orientation on COVID-19

Yes

50

32

0.646

No

202

115

 

Working hours in a week

<=40

74

45

0.793

> 40

178

102

 

Extra allowance provided

Yes

57

37

0.562

No

195

110

 

Support from palika

Excellent

10

7

0.045

Good

153

98

 

Poor

60

19

 

very Poor

29

23

 

Sufficient equipment and medicines available at health facilities

Yes

131

121

0.259

No

85

62

 

Palika level COVID-19 Response team

Yes

179

102

0.879

No

15

8

 

Don’t know

58

37