Overall Europe Arab/ Persian World Sub-Saharan Africa Southeast Asia Asia Oceania North America Latin/ Central America Sig. Diff?
N 4249 2141 249 322 445 306 120 166 500
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) Chi-square, p-value
Sex
Male 1961 (46.2) 1025 (47.9) 104 (41.8) 163 (50.6) 190 (42.7) 152 (49.7) 57 (47.5) 64 (38.6) 206 (41.2)
Female 2288 (53.8) 1116 (52.1) 145 (58.2) 159 (49.4) 262 (57.6) 154 (50.3) 63 (52.5) 102 (61.4) 294 (58.8) 19.6, <0.01
Age groups
9 807 (19.0) 452 (21.1) 56 (22.5) 63 (19.6) 46 (10.3) 36 (11.8) 20 (16.7) 21 (12.7) 113 (22.6)
10 897 (21.1) 516 (24.1) 46 (18.5) 68 (21.1) 55 (12.4) 69 (22.5) 22 (18.3) 34 (20.5) 87 (17.4)
11 909 (21.4) 516 (24.1) 42 (16.9) 54 (16.8) 61 (13.7) 69 (22.5) 29 (24.2) 35 (21.1) 103 (20.6)
12 789 (18.6) 385 (18.0) 41 (16.5) 63 (19.6) 78 (17.5) 72 (23.5) 21 (17.5) 44 (26.5) 85 (17.0)
13 847 (19.9) 272 (12.7) 64 (25.7) 74 (23.0) 205 (46.1) 60 (19.6) 28 (23.3) 32 (19.3) 112 (22.4) 324.4, <0.001
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) F, p-value
Age in years 11.0, (1.4) 10.8 (1.3)a 11.0 (1.5)a 11.1 (1.5)a 11.8 (1.4)b 11.2 (1.3)a 11.1 (1.4)a 11.2 (1.3)a 11.0 (1.5)a 27.7, <0.001
Knowledge score (range -22 to 11) 4.8 (5.3) 5.9 (4.7)a 3.0 (5.9)b 1.1 (6.1)c 3.0 (5.3)b 5.0 (5.5)a 3.8 (5.5)b 5.58 (4.1)a 4.50 (4.8)b 62.8, <0.001
Personally sick concern (range 1 to 6) 3.6 (1.6) 3.2 (1.4)a 3.5 (1.8)b 4.1 (2.0)b 4.2 (1.5)b 4.0 (1.5)b 3.2 (1.5)a 3.27 (1.4)a 4.33 (1.5)b 53.1, <0.001
Others sick concern (range 4 to 16) 10.9 (3.2) 10.3 (2.9)a 11.6 (3.0)b 11.6 (3.8)b 11.7 (3.4)b 12.1 (2.7)b 10.6 (2.8)a 10.0 (2.9)a 11.3 (3.4)b 25.8, <0.001
Concern about education (range 2 to 8) 5.2 (2.0) 4.7 (1.9)a 5.8 (2.1)b 6.7 (1.7)b 5.8 (1.8)b 5.2 (2.0)a 5.2 (1.8)a 4.94 (1.9)a 5.6 (1.9)b 57.1, <0.001
Concern about interruptions (range 5 to 20) 14.2 (3.4) 13.8 (3.3)a 15.3 (3.6)b 16.2 (3.3)c 14.9 (3.3)b 13.5 (3.7)a 14.2 (3.4)b 13.6 (3.2)a 14.7 (3.3)b 28.9, <0.001
Overall concern (range 9 to 36) 25.1 (5.4) 24.1 (5.0)a 27.0 (5.4)b 27.8 (6.0)b 26.5 (5.2)b 25.6 (5.5)b 24.8 (5.5)a 23.56 (4.8)a 26.0 (5.5)b 32.8, <0.001