Validity and reliability of an adapted questionnaire measuring knowledge, awareness and practice regarding familial hypercholesterolaemia among primary care physicians in Malaysia

Table 4 Known-groups validity by comparing the median percentage score in awareness regarding FH between PCP-PG-Qual and PCP-noPG-Qual

KAP Domain	Median (± IqR) percentage score of PCP-PG-Qual n = 31	Median (± IqR) percentage score of PCP-noPG-Qual n = 99	Median difference in percentage score	z-value^a	p-value^b
Awareness	15.4 (23.08)	7.7 (15.38)	7.69	2.17	0.030

KAP, knowledge, awareness and practice; IqR, inter quartile range; n, number; PCP-PG-Qual, primary care physicians with postgraduate qualification; PCP-noPG-Qual, primary care physicians without postgraduate qualification;
^a Mann Whitney u-test was used to compare medians as the data was not normally distributed. The null hypothesis was rejected as the z value was > 1.96
^b Significant p < 0.05

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