Construction site workers’ malaria knowledge and treatment-seeking pattern in a highly endemic urban area of India

Table 3 Construction workers’ mean malaria knowledge scores according to their socio-demographic variables and treatment-seeking pattern in Mangaluru, India, June–September 2012 (n = 119, maximum possible score = 16)

Study variable	n	Mean knowledge score	SD	p
Age (years)
<25	58	10.0	3.31	0.772
≥25	61	9.9	3.09
Gender
Female	18	6.7	2.77	<0.001^a
Male	101	10.5	2.91
Type of worker
Migrant	116	9.9	3.20	0.281^b
Local	3	12.0	2.65
Stay at construction site
Yes	89	10.1	3.03	0.533
No	30	9.6	3.68
History of malaria within 1 year
Yes	55	11.3	2.71	<0.001^a
No	64	8.8	3.11
Literacy status
Illiterate	49	8.9	3.19	0.002^a
Literate	70	10.7	3.00
Caste category^c
SC/ST	65	9.6	3.67	0.139
General/OBC	54	10.4	2.46
Marital status
Unmarried	50	10.5	2.92	0.097
Married	69	9.5	3.34
Preferred source of treatment
Government	83	10.6	2.9	0.004^a
Private	36	8.6	3.5
Preferred treatment
Allopathic	98	10.7	2.9	<0.001^a
Others	21	6.5	1.9

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