Table 1 University students’ characteristics by type of relationship with someone who had a miscarriage
From: University students’ awareness of causes and risk factors of miscarriage: a cross-sectional study
Do not know anyone, n (%) | Myself, partner, family or friend, n (%) | Celebrities, n (%) | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total* | 674 | 85 (12.6) | 489 (72.6) | 100 (14.8) | |
Sex | |||||
Female | 532 | 51 (9.6) | 391 (73.5) | 90 (16.9) | < 0.001 |
Male | 142 | 34 (23.9) | 98 (69.0) | 10 (7.0) | |
Age | |||||
≤ 20 | 152 | 20 (13.2) | 103 (67.8) | 29 (19.1) | 0.005 |
21–22 | 257 | 44 (17.1) | 175 (68.1) | 38 (14.8) | |
≥ 23 | 265 | 21 (7.9) | 211 (79.6) | 33 (12.5) | |
Marital status | |||||
Single | 554 | 78 (14.1) | 394 (71.1) | 82 (14.8) | 0.045 |
Other (married, cohabiting…) | 120 | 7 (5.8) | 95 (79.2) | 18 (15.0) | |
Discipline | |||||
Medicine and Health | 215 | 21 (9.8) | 159 (74.0) | 35 (16.3) | 0.023 |
Arts and Social Science | 179 | 16 (8.9) | 130 (72.6) | 33 (18.4) | |
Engineering & Food Science | 186 | 34 (18.3) | 135 (72.6) | 17 (9.1) | |
Business and Commerce & Law | 94 | 14 (14.9) | 65 (69.1) | 15 (16.0) | |
Level of study | |||||
Undergraduate | 535 | 76 (14.2) | 378 (70.7) | 81 (15.1) | 0.035 |
Postgraduate | 139 | 9 (6.5) | 111 (79.9) | 19 (13.7) | |