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Table 5 Statistically significant associations between sociodemographic factors and the questionnaire’s scales

From: Greek students’ attitudes, perception and knowledge regarding generic medicines in times of economic crisis: a cross-sectional study

Scales

Associated factors

Mean (SD)*

Median (IQR) **

Spearman’s rho†

p

State audit

Sex

---

< 0.001

 Male

3.397 (0.977)

3.333 (1.333)

 Female

3.164

3.000

Profession

(0.952)

(1.667)

---

< 0.001§

 Doctor

3.455 (1.045)

3.667 (1.667)

 Dentist

3.406 (1.029)

3.667 (1.333)

 Pharmacist

3.380 (1.008)

3.500 (1.333)

 Nurse

2.991 (0.923)

3.000 (1.333)

 Other health professional

3.214 (0.931)

3.333 (1.333)

 Other profession

3.225 (0.864)

3.333 (1.333)

Units completed

---

---

0.076

(0.018)

Knowledge

Sex

---

< 0.001

 Male

1.348 (0.581)

1.000 (0.667)

 Female

1.648 (0.722)

1.333 (1.000)

Profession

---

< 0.001§

 Doctor

1.231 (0.441)

1.000 (0.333)

 Dentist

1.188 (0.359)

1.000 (0.167)

 Pharmacist

1.019 (0.077)

1.000 (0.000)

 Nurse

1.524 (0.579)

1.333 (1.000)

 Other health professional

1.700 (0.734)

1.667 (1.000)

 Other profession

1.918 (0.831)

2.000 (0.667)

Units completed

---

---

−0.140

< 0.001

Drug quality

Age

---

---

−0.064

(0.046)

Professional status

---

(0.039)

 Employed

2.693 (0.965)

2.667 (1.333)

 Unemployed

2.986 (1.047)

3.167 (1.667)

Drug substitution

Age

---

---

0.099

0.002

Sex

---

(0.048)

 Male

3.872 (1.209)

4.000 (2.000)

 Female

3.802 (1.076)

4.000 (2.000)

Marrital status

---

(0.048)§

 Single

3.685 (1.185)

4.000 (2.000)

 Married

3.889 (1.096)

4.000 (2.000)

 Divorced

4.012 (1.056)

4.500 (1.500)

 Widowed

3.333 (1.155)

4.000 (2.000)

Profession

---

< 0.001§

 Doctor

4.343 (0.913)

5.000 (1.000)

 Dentist

3.969 (1.177)

4.250 (1.500)

 Pharmacist

2.139 (1.382)

1.500 (2.000)

 Nurse

3.644 (1.101)

4.000 (1.500)

 Other health professional

3.682 (1.117)

4.000 (1.500)

 Other profession

3.782 (0.940)

4.000 (1.500)

Fiscal impact

Profession

---

< 0.001§

 Doctor

2.622 (0.873)

2.667 (1.333)

 Dentist

2.427 (0.963)

2.000 (1.000)

 Pharmacist

2.611 (1.006)

2.667 (1.500)

 Nurse

2.103 (0.798)

2.000 (1.000)

 Other health professional

2.159 (0.812)

2.000 (1.000)

 Other profession

2.151 (0.773)

2.000 (1.000)

  1. * for categorical variables, ** IQR Interquartile rage, †for ordinal or continuous variables, ¶ Wilcoxon rank-sum test, § Kruskal-Wallis rank test, ‡p-values in parentheses denote p-values< 0.05 who become statistically insignificant after application of the Bonferonni correction (corrected p-value = 0.007)