Table 4 Socio-demographic characteristics of the participants with their knowledge about COVID-19 pandemic
Characteristics | Knowledge about symptoms & prevention | Knowledge about quarantining, isolation and community containment | Knowledge about social distancing | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor | Moderate | Good | Excellent | Poor | Moderate | Good | Excellent | Poor | Moderate | Good | Excellent | |
Age (years) | ||||||||||||
< 25 | 53 (49.5) | 43 (52.4) | 119 (55.9) | 76 (52.1) | 22 (52.4) | 84 (63.2) | 67 (40.1) | 118 (57.3) | 51 (50.0) | 57 (48.3) | 69 (57.0) | 114 (55.1) |
≥ 25 | 54 (50.5) | 39 (47.6) | 94 (44.1) | 70 (47.9) | 20 (47.6) | 49 (36.8) | 100 (59.9) | 88 (42.7) | 51 (50.0) | 61 (51.7) | 52 (43.0) | 93 (44.9) |
V, p-value | 0.048, 0.734 | 0.182, < 0.001 | 0.068, 0.465 | |||||||||
Gender | ||||||||||||
Female | 65 (60.7) | 60 (73.2) | 150 (70.4) | 89 (61.0) | 24 (57.1) | 92 (69.2) | 96 (57.5) | 152 (73.8) | 62 (60.8) | 81 (68.6) | 79 (65.3) | 142 (68.6) |
Male | 42 (39.3) | 22 (26.8) | 63 (29.6) | 57 (39.0) | 18 (42.9) | 41 (30.8) | 71 (42.5) | 54 (26.2) | 40 (39.2) | 37 (31.4) | 42 (34.7) | 65 (31.4) |
V, p-value | 0.111, 0.082 | 0.154, 0.005 | 0.064, 0.527 | |||||||||
Level of education | ||||||||||||
Intermediate or below | 18 (16.8) | 9 (11.0) | 28 (13.1) | 15 (10.3) | 8 (19.0) | 31 (23.3) | 14 (8.4) | 17 (8.3) | 15 (14.7) | 13 (11.0) | 20 (16.5) | 22 (10.6) |
Graduate | 76 (71.0) | 62 (75.6) | 163 (76.5) | 109 (74.7) | 31 (73.8) | 90 (67.7) | 123 (73.7) | 166 (80.6) | 82 (80.4) | 93 (78.8) | 86 (71.1) | 149 (72.0) |
Post graduate | 13 (12.1) | 11 (13.4) | 22 (10.3) | 22 (15.1) | 3 (7.1) | 12 (9.0) | 30 (18.0) | 23 (11.2) | 5 (4.9) | 12 (10.2) | 15 (12.4) | 36 (17.4) |
V, p-value | 0.062, 0.641 | 0.157, < 0.001 | 0.109, 0.042 | |||||||||
Employment status | ||||||||||||
Unemployed/ Retired | 38 (35.5) | 35 (42.7) | 85 (39.9) | 62 (42.5) | 17 (40.5) | 67 (50.4) | 60 (35.9) | 76 (36.9) | 37 (36.3) | 45 (38.1) | 53 (43.8) | 85 (41.1) |
Employed | 69 (64.5) | 47 (57.3) | 128 (60.1) | 84 (57.5) | 25 (59.5) | 66 (49.6) | 107 (64.1) | 130 (63.1) | 65 (63.7) | 73 (61.9) | 68 (56.2) | 122 (58.9) |
V, p-value | 0.052, 0.681 | 0.120, 0.047 | 0.054, 0.664 | |||||||||