Applied Cancer Research

Table 3 Relationship between characteristics of participants and knowledge score (n = 109)

From: Physicians’ knowledge, perceived barriers, and practices regarding cancer pain management: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

Characteristics	Median ^a [Q1-Q3]	P value^b
Age (years)
Less than 40	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	0.582^c
40 or more	6.5 [5.0–7.8]	0.582^c
Gender
Male	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	0.172^c
Female	7.0 [5.0–8.0]	0.172^c
Country of education
Palestine	7.0 [5.0–8.3]	0.111^c
Abroad	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	0.111^c
Type of work
Governmental	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	< 0.001 ^d
Private sector	8.0 [6.5–9.0]
Both	5.5 [4.3–6.0]
Professional level
General practitioner	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	0.694^d
Resident	6.0 [5.0–7.0]
Specialist	7.0 [5.0–8.0]
Clinical specialty
General practitioner	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	0.137^d
Internal medicine	7.0 [5.5–8.5]
Surgeon	6.0 [5.0–7.0]
Paediatrician	5.0 [4.8–6.3]
Other*	6.0 [4.0–7.0]
Experience
Less than 10 years	6.0 [5.0–7.0]	0.461^c
10 years or more	7.0 [5.0–8.0]	0.461^c

*Other includes medical oncology, family medicine, gynaecology, nephrology, emergency medicine and intensive care medicine
^aKnowledge Score was a range of 0–14; high score reflects more knowledge about cancer pain management)
^bThe p-value is bold where it is less than the significance level cut-off of 0.05
^cStatistical significance of differences calculated using the Mann–Whitney U test
^dStatistical significance of differences calculated using the Kruskal–Wallis test

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