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Table 4 Associations between student characteristics and knowledge and attitudes towards monkeypox based on univariate analysis

From: Evaluation of monkeypox knowledge and attitudes among Chinese medical students

Baseline characteristics

Knowledge

Attitude

Poor

Good

p

Poor

Good

p

Sex

      

Male

898 (20.55)

941 (20.79)

0.782

700 (18.34)

1139 (22.42)

<0.001*

Female

3472 (79.45)

3586 (79.21)

3116 (81.66)

3942 (77.58)

Ethnicity

      

Han

3914 (89.57)

4013 (88.65)

0.164

3412 (89.41)

4515 (88.86)

0.408

Others

456 (10.43)

514 (11.35)

404 (10.59)

566 (11.14)

Origin of student

      

City

1273 (29.13)

1174 (25.93)

0.001*

1082 (28.35)

1365 (26.86)

0.119

Rural

3097 (70.87)

3353 (74.07)

2734 (71.65)

3716 (73.14)

School year

      

First year

2195 (50.23)

2288 (50.54)

0.472

2037 (53.38)

2446 (48.14)

<0.001*

Second year

1327 (30.37)

1405 (31.04)

1075 (28.17)

1657 (32.61)

Third year

848 (19.41)

834 (18.42)

 

704 (18.45)

978 (19.25)

 

Major

      

Medicine

3577 (81.85)

3598 (79.48)

0.005*

3104 (81.34)

4071 (80.12)

0.150

Others

793 (18.15)

929 (20.52)

712 (18.66)

1010 (19.88)

  1. *p < 0.05