As the forthcoming national assessments within a sample of schools at basic education level are introduced, the results of these, too, should be disaggregated by gender, in order to examine girls' achievement.
The results of the study showed that all the respondents had acquired basic education level, with most (43.6%) having attained secondary school education level.
In the present study, most patients have the basic education level, and therefore if any effect was present this would be protector.
Patients were young people, most of them have the basic education level, and patients undergoing cesarean section was the the major clinical condition.
Campaigns also need to be implemented to create awareness among students at the basic education level to reduce the prevalence of the habit in universities and to avoid its unfavorable health consequences.
The level of education also had some influence: the participants with a university education (level 4 or 5) were more often of the opinion that in some cases informing is not necessary than the participants with basic education (level 1 or 2), (p = 0.008), but no linear association was found there, either.
Modeled as an ordinal score (0 to 12), women's schooling was similarly dichotomized for descriptive purposes at the cut-off point of 9 years of completed schooling, which stands for the Brazilian basic education level (equivalent to middle school in the US and O-level in the UK).
They need a basic education to prepare themselves for higher-level learning.
Independent variables: General ability is measured using respondent's completed level of formal education divided into six categories: Basic education (Education below secondary level), secondary education, post-secondary (Vocational), post-secondary (Low Bachelor), post-secondary (high Bachelor), post-secondary (graduate studies).
The predictors for each section of health-related knowledge are major, year of class and a mother's education level for basic knowledge and concept, place of origin and gender for healthy lifestyle and behaviour, and place of origin and year of class for basic medical skills.
