No respondent had an excellent knowledge of the issues; only one respondent (0.7%), a doctor, had good knowledge, 13 people (8.5%), also mostly doctors, had a fair knowledge, while about 91% had poor knowledge.
* Number and percentage responding correctly Overall assessment of their knowledge revealed that 6917.5.5%) of them had good knowledge, 108 (27.5%) had fair knowledge while 216 (55.0%) had poor knowledge about the risk factors for breast cancer.
Individuals who had poor [OR = 5.2, (95%CI: 2.3, 11.2)] and fair knowledge [OR = 3.7, (95%CI: 1.3, 10.4)] about TB were more likely to have TB than individuals who had good knowledge.
Conclusion Our questionnaire sheds light on three major points: a discomfort about key decisions of active therapeutic limitations, a fair knowledge of legal documents, together with a strong demand for an update and teaching of these texts.
Knowledge of 0-2 = poor, Knowledge of 3-4 = fair, Knowledge of 5 and above = good.
Of the total respondents, 358 (68.6%), 119 (23.2%), and 678.2.2%) had good knowledge, fair knowledge, and poor knowledge about HIV/AIDS modes of transmission and prevention methods, respectively (Table 2).
Good ART knowledge was defined as answering at least 5 out of 7 questions about ART correctly, fair knowledge was correctly answering between 2 4 questions about ART correctly, and poor knowledge was answering only one or no questions correctly.
Good HIV knowledge was defined as answering at least 4 out of 6 questions about HIV correctly, fair knowledge was defined as correctly answering 2 3 questions correctly, and poor knowledge was defined as correctly answering 1 or no questions correctly.
El-Alfy et al. studied 318 patients after splenectomy [27], and found that 45% was well informed about the risk and prevention of infection, 30% had fair knowledge and 25% had poor knowledge.
Accordingly scores from 8to1010 were classified as "fair knowledge".
The knowledge section was graded in the range of zero (0) to thirty three (33), with 0 11 being poor knowledge, 12 22, being fair knowledge and 23 33 good knowledge.
