Research Article
An Institution-Based Assessment of Students’ Hand Washing Behavior
Table 2
Comparison of median scores across the different groups (N = 577).
| Factors | Knowledge score | Practices score | Skills score | Median | valuea | Median | valuea | Median | valuea |
| Age (years) | | <0.001 | | <0.001 | | 0.624 | 17–22 | 65.9 | | 34.0 | | 51.0 | | 23–28 | 57.7 | | 10.9 | | 46.0 | | ≥29 | 51.3 | | 9.3 | | 46.7 | | Gender | | 0.556 | | 0.279 | | 0.585 | Male | 60.9 | | 27.3 | | 48.0 | | Female | 62.5 | | 14.5 | | 51.8 | | Discipline | | <0.001 | | <0.001 | | 0.337 | Social/management sciences | 59.5 | | 12.0 | | 46.4 | | Science/engineering | 62.5 | | 44.1 | | 50.8 | | Medicine/nursing | 73.0 | | 11.9 | | 55.4 | | Type of university | | 0.002 | | <0.001 | | 0.895 | Private | 66.4 | | 45.8 | | 48.9 | | Public | 58.3 | | 8.9 | | 51.1 | | Frequency of hand wash per day | | <0.001 | | 0.043 | | 0.012 | ≤2 times | 42.2 | | 12.5 | | 38.6 | | 3–5 times | 60.1 | | 21.4 | | 41.5 | | ≥6 times | 62.5 | | 23.1 | | 53.6 | |
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aKruskal–Wallis test was used to compare the median scores across the different factors.
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