Knowledge questions

Level of education

Primary

Secondary

Superior

Franco-Arabic school

Illiterate

Total

p-value

First cycle

Second cycle

Infection Risk Factors

Unprotected sex with a person

24.5

42.1

72.0

73.3

0.0

11.0

35.5

0.000*

Use of contaminatedneedles

30.2

42.1

80.0

73.3

40.0

16.4

39.7

0.000*

Contact (eyes, wounds) with the blood of a person who has hepatitis B

30.2

30.3

56.0

43.3

0.0

13.7

29.0

0.000*

From infected mother to her child during pregnancy

54.7

55.3

88.0

93.3

40.0

34.2

56.5

0.000*

A blood transfusion with contaminated blood

37.7

42.1

84.0

83.3

20.0

19.2

43.1

0.000*

Use of drugs intravenously with dirty needles

32.1

42.1

76.0

76.7

20.0

12.3

38.5

0.000*

Excision with used equipment

35.8

42.1

80.0

76.7

20.0

16.4

40.8

0.000*

Sharing of blades/razors with an infected person

34.0

47.4

76.0

80.0

20.0

19.2

42.7

0.000*

Toothbrushes sharing especially in the presence of minor bleeding

32.1

43.4

68.0

76.7

20.0

16.4

39.3

0.000*

Practice of ritual scarification or therapeutic with the same blade for several people

37.7

43.4

80.0

80.0

20.0

17.8

42.4

0.000*

Manicure/pedicure with the same non-disinfected equipment

34.0

38.2

76.0

80.0

20.0

16.4

39.3

0.000*

Prevention methods

Vaccination

28.3

36.8

68.0

80.0

0.0

8.2

34.4

0.000*

Safe sex

30.2

31.6

80.0

80.0

0.0

16.4

36.6

0.000*

Screening blood donors

30.2

30.3

80.0

80.0

0.0

13.7

35.5

0.000*

Use of disposable equipment

30.2

39.5

76.0

76.7

0.0

16.4

38.2

0.000*

Treatment

Is there any treatment?

49.1

52.6

60.0

60.0

20.0

23.3

44.7

0.000*

Mortality

Is the hepatitis B a deadly disease?

50.9

50.0

76.0

76.7

20.0

24.7

48.1

0.000*