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	value^a	Median	value^a	Median	value^a
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

^aKruskal–Wallis test was used to compare the median scores across the different factors.