Research Article
Awareness of Oral Cancer in a Northwestern Nigerian State: Assessing the Knowledge, Opinion, and Practice of Traditional Healers and Herbalists
Table 5
Factors associated with respondents’ knowledge of oral cancer.
| | Sociodemographic characteristic | Adequate (%) | Inadequate (%) | Total | value |
| | Age group (years) | | | | | | <50 | 3 (25.0) | 9 (75.0) | 12 (100) | 0.6 | | ≥50 | 1 (11.1) | 8 (88.9) | 9 (100) | | Total | 4 (19.0) | 17 (81.0) | 21 (100) |
| | Gender | | | | | | Male | 4 (20.0) | 16 (80.0) | 20 (100) | 1.0 | | Female | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | 1 (100) | | Total | 4 (19.0) | 17 (81.0) | 21 (100) |
| | Marital status | | | | | | Married | 2 (11.1) | 16 (88.9) | 18 (100) | 0.08 | | Not married | 2 (66.7) | 1 (33.3) | 3 (100) | | Total | 4 (19.0) | 17 (81.0) | 21 (100) |
| | Educational qualification | | | | | | Formal | 4 (50.0) | 4 (50.0) | 8 (100) | 0.012* | | Informal | 0 (0) | 13 (100) | 13 (100) | | Total | 4 (19.0) | 17 (81.0) | 21 (100) |
| | Ethnicity | | | | | | Hausa/Fulani | 4 (23.5) | 13 (76.5) | 17 (100) | 0.5 | | Others | 0 (0) | 4 (100) | 4 (100) | | Total | 4 (19.0) | 17 (81.0) | 21 (100) |
| | Nationality | | | | | | Nigerian | 4 (21.1) | 15 (78.9) | 19 (100) | 1.0 | | Non-Nigerian | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | | Total | 4 (19.0) | 17 (81.0) | 21 (100) |
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Statistically significant.
Fishers exact test was used to calculate -values.
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