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Table 4 Spearman rho’s correlations between knowledge, attitude, practice, and prescription scores

From: Predictors of antibiotic prescriptions: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey among physicians in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria

Scores

Knowledge score-r (p value)

Attitude score-r (p value)

Practice score-r (p value)

Prescription score-r (p value)

Knowledge score

1

0.360 (< 0.0001)

0.191 (< 0.0001)

− 0.074 (0.008)

Attitude score

0.360 (< 0.0001)

1

0.296 (< 0.0001)

− 0.217 (< 0.0001)

Practice score

0.191 (> 0.0001)

0.296 (< 0.0001)

1

− 0.192 (< 0.0001)

Prescription score

− 0.074 (0.008)

− 0.217 (< 0.0001)

− 0.192 (< 0.0001)

1

  1. NB: there were weak positive correlations between knowledge, attitude and practice scores and weak negative correlations between when prescription scores where compared with knowledge, attitude, and practice scores