Identification of the awareness level by the public of Arab countries toward COVID-19: cross-sectional study following an outbreak

Table 4 Participants’ awareness toward COVID-19

	COVID-19 awareness score
Demographic variables	Mean ± SD		Median	p value
Gender
Male	79.45	14.04	83.33	0.478
Female	78.27	14.43	77.78	0.478
Age groups
18–22	70.31	14.79	72.22	< 0.001
23–26	72.86	17.45	77.77
27–30	74.54	14.22	77.78
31–36	79.21	14.72	83.33
37–40	80.11	13.45	83.33
≥ 41	80.19	14.79	83.56
Country of residence
Jordan	79.40	14.52	83.33	0.199
Palestine	76.19	16.77	83.33
Qatar	80.06	10.31	83.33
UAE	78.99	16.24	80.56
KSA	75.67	13.08	77.78
Egypt	76.54	4.63	77.78
Other	79.17	15.07	80.55
Having the same nationality as the country you live in
Yes	77.64	14.52	77.78	0.202
No	79.29	14.18	83.33
Education
Primary school/elementary	61.11	21.15	66.66	0.003
Secondary school	74.18	13.14	77.77
Diploma	80.19	12.98	83.33
University degree	78.54	15.17	77.78
Post-graduate degree	81.08	11.29	83.33
Employment				< 0.001
Student	73.81	13.79	77.77
Unemployed	79.21	13.68	77.78
Employee in health sector	83.13	12.17	83.33
Employee in non-health sector	77.14	15.66	77.77
Health profession
Physician	83.33	9.44	80.50	0.446
Nurse	85.42	11.78	83.33
Pharmacist	82.06	13.86	83.33
Other	79.91	7.36	77.74

p values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant, p values obtained from the Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests

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