Table 2 Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and practice (KAP) scores based on participant Characteristics.

From: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers on preventing postoperative deep vein thrombosis

N = 205	Knowledge		Attitude		Practice
N = 205	Median [25%,75%] or mean ± SD	P	Median [25%,75%] or mean ± SD	P	Median [25%,75%] or mean ± SD	P
Total Score	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [43.00, 50.00]		46.00 [39.00, 50.00]
Gender		0.480^a		0.702 ^a		0.290 ^a
- Male	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [43.00, 50.00]		46.00 [40.00, 50.00]
- Female	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.50 [43.00, 50.00]		45.00 [37.00, 50.00]
Age		0.009^b		0.024 ^b		0.362 ^b
<=29	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		43.00 [38.50, 48.50]		40.00 [36.00, 50.00]
30–39	8.00 [8.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		46.00 [39.00, 50.00]
40–49	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [43.00, 49.25]		44.50 [37.00, 48.25]
>=50	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [45.00, 50.00]		47.00 [41.00, 50.00]
BMI		0.813 ^b		0.789 ^b		0.742 ^b
<=18.5	8.00 [8.00, 8.00]		49.00 [43.00, 49.75]		40.00 [36.00, 47.50]
18.5–23.9	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		46.00 [43.00, 50.00]		45.00 [37.50, 50.00]
24.0–27.9.0.9	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		46.00 [40.00, 50.00]
>=28.0	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [43.00, 49.50]		46.00 [39.00, 50.00]
Education Level		0.409 ^a		0.757 ^a		0.165 ^a
- Associate/Bachelor’s Degree	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [43.00, 50.00]		46.00 [40.00, 50.00]
- Master’s Degree and Above	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [45.00, 49.00]		43.00 [35.00, 50.00]
Marital Status		0.005 ^a		0.002 ^a		0.002 ^a
- Single	7.00 [7.00, 8.00]		42.50 [38.00, 48.00]		37.50 [30.00, 45.00]
- Married	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		46.00 [40.00, 50.00]
Department		0.037 ^b		0.002 ^b		0.001 ^b
- Joint Surgery	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [43.00, 50.00]		48.00 [42.75, 50.00]
- Transfusion Medicine	7.00 [6.50, 8.00]		42.00 [38.00, 46.00]		40.00 [28.00, 47.50]
- Surgical Department	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		42.00 [36.00, 50.00]
- Internal Medicine Department	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		47.00 [43.00, 49.00]		45.00 [39.00, 50.00]
- Other Departments	8.00 [8.00, 8.00]		48.50 [46.00, 50.00]		45.00 [37.00, 49.25]
Job Type		< 0.001 ^b		0.001 ^b		0.001 ^b
- Physician	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [43.00, 50.00]		46.00 [40.75, 50.00]
- Nurse	8.00 [8.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		46.00 [39.00, 50.00]
- Other Personnel	7.00 [6.00, 7.00]		42.00 [39.50, 46.50]		40.00 [30.00, 44.00]
Professional Title		0.030 ^b		0.153 ^b		0.352 ^b
- Junior	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		46.00 [41.75, 50.00]		41.00 [36.50, 50.00]
- Intermediate	8.00 [8.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		46.00 [39.00, 50.00]
- Senior	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		46.00 [44.00, 49.00]		46.00 [41.00, 50.00]
Years of Service		0.002 ^b		0.004 ^b		0.021 ^b
< 5years	7.00 [7.00, 8.00]		43.00 [38.00, 48.00]		40.00 [30.00, 46.00]
5 ~ 10 years	8.00 [8.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 49.00]		47.00 [40.00, 50.00]
10 ~ 20 years	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		48.00 [44.00, 50.00]		45.00 [37.50, 50.00]
≥ 20 years	8.00 [7.00, 8.00]		46.00 [42.00, 49.00]		46.00 [41.00, 50.00]

^aWilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test; ^bKruskal–Wallis test; Bold all significant P-values (P < 0.05).

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Table 2 Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and practice (KAP) scores based on participant Characteristics.

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