Table 2 AMS knowledge, attitude and practice scores by demographic variables and workplace characteristics
Variable | Knowledge | Attitude | Practices | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adequate | Not adequate | p-value | Positive | Negative | p-value | Yes | No | p-value | |
Gender, n. (%) | |||||||||
Male | 367 (97.9) | 8 (2.1) | 0.723 | 273 (72.8) | 102 (27.2) | 0.992 | 337 (89.9) | 38 (10.1) | 0.198 |
Female | 1231 (97.3) | 34 (2.7) | 925 (73.1) | 340 (26.9) | 1105 (87.4) | 160 (12.6) | |||
Non-binary | 11 (100.0) | 0 (-) | 8 (72.7) | 3 (27.3) | 11 (100.0) | 0 (-) | |||
Age, mean (SD) | 39.3 (10.9) | 40.6 (10.4) | 0.458 | 39.4 (10.8) | 39.2 (11.0) | 0.715 | 39.4 (11.0) | 39.1 (10.0) | 0.685 |
Education a, n. (%) | |||||||||
Basic | 1187 (97.4) | 32 (2.6) | 0.725 | 902 (74.0) | 317 (26.0) | 0.145 | 1088 (89.3) | 131 (10.7) | 0.009 |
Advanced | 422 (97.7) | 10 (2.3) | 304 (70.4) | 128 (29.6) | 365 (84.9) | 67 (15.5) | |||
Workplace b, n. (%) | |||||||||
Medical | 734 (98.3) | 13 (1.7) | 0.146 | 552 (73.9) | 195 (26.1) | 0.445 | 662 (88.6) | 85 (11.4) | < 0.001 |
Surgical | 443 (96.5) | 16 (3.5) | 325 (70.8) | 134 (29.2) | 426 (92.8) | 33 (7.2) | |||
Intensive care | 432 (97.1) | 13 (2.9) | 329 (73.9) | 116 (26.1) | 365 (82.0) | 80 (18.0) | |||
Hospital c, n. (%) | |||||||||
Second level | 598 (97.9) | 13 (2.1) | 0.711 | 432 (70.7) | 179 (29.3) | 0.117 | 524 (85.8) | 87 (14.2) | 0.068 |
First level | 551 (97.2) | 16 (2.8) | 413 (72.8) | 154 (27.2) | 511 (90.1) | 56 (9.9) | |||
Basic | 460 (97.3) | 13 (2.7) | 361 (76.3) | 112 (23.7) | 418 (88.4) | 55 (11.6) | |||
Region d, n. (%) | |||||||||
Central-Northern Italy | 978 (97.8) | 22 (2.2) | 0.271 | 773 (77.3) | 227 (22.7) | < 0.001 | 875 (87.5) | 125 (12.5) | 0.432 |
Central-Southern Italy and Islands | 631 (96.9) | 20 (3.1) | 433 (66.5) | 218 (33.5) | 578 (88.8) | 73 (11.0) | |||