An Institution-Based Assessment of Students’ Hand Washing Behavior
Table 3
Multiple quantile regression estimates indicating differences in hand washing knowledge, practices and skills scores across different factors (N = 577).
Factors
Knowledge score
Practices score
Skills score
Estimate
SE
value
Estimate
SE
value
Estimate
SE
value
Intercept
50.0
7.6
<0.001
44.0
2.6
<0.001
30.0
12.8
0.020
Age (years)
17–22
0
0
0
23–28
−6.3
3.4
0.065
0.5
1.0
0.496
−10.0
4.4
0.025
≥29
−6.3
6.6
0.039
0.5
1.8
0.274
−10.0
11.1
0.368
Gender
Male
0
0
0
Female
0.0
2.6
1.000
0.5
0.8
0.544
0.0
3.9
1.000
Discipline
Social/management sciences
0
0
0
Science/engineering
0.0
3.1
1.000
1.5
1.0
0.091
10.0
4.8
0.036
Medicine/nursing
6.3
3.2
0.029
2.0
1.2
0.328
0.0
5.1
1.000
Type of university
Private
0
0
0
Public
−6.3
3.2
0.021
−36.0
1.1
<0.001
−10.0
4.5
0.025
Frequency of hand wash per day
≤2 times
0
0
0
3–5 times
12.5
7.3
0.086
1.0
2.3
0.683
10.0
12.4
0.420
≥6 times
18.7
7.1
0.008
1.5
2.3
0.537
20.0
12.3
0.104
The estimate associated with each category is the difference in median score compared with the reference category. SE, standard error.
