Development and validation of an instrument to measure physician awareness of bioethics and medical law in Oman

BMC Medical Ethics

Table 4 Indices of bioethics awareness and Medico-legal awareness scores (mean, SD) among Omani physicians by selected socio-demographic and professional characteristics, Oman, 2016

Characteristics	Bioethics awareness (practice of bioethics and incentive related bioethics subscales)		Medico-legal awareness subscale
	Mean (SD)	P value	Mean (SD)	P value
Overall	27.6 (3.5)		10.1 (2.1)
Gender		0.72		0.15
Male	27.7 (3.9)		10.2 (2.0)
Female	27.5 (2.9)		9.4 (2.1)
Age		0.001		0.67
25 to 30	26.6 (3.7)		9.9 (1.8)
31 to 40	28.3 (3.1)		10.3 (2.2)
Above 40	28.5 (3.0)		9.9 (2.3)
Rank designation		0.001		0.86
Senior House Officer	26.7 (3.7)		10.0 (1.8)
Registrar	28.9 (2.6)		10.1 (2.5)
Consultant	28.0 (3.4)		10.2 (1.9)
Experience (years)		0.002		0.83
Less than 5	26.7 (3.8)		10.1 (1.8)
5 to 10	27.0 (2.9)		9.9 (2.1)
Above 10	28.8 (2.9)		10.1 (2.3)
Specialty		0.35		0.85
Surgical	27.2 (4.1)		10.0 (2.2)
Medical	27.8 (3.1)		10.1 (2.0)
Place of studying medicine		0.001		0.43
Oman	26.8 (3.7)		10.1 (1.8)
Elsewhere	28.6 (2.8)		9.9 (2.3)
Regularly work with patients		0.008		0.02
No	27.7 (2.1)		12.5 (1.2)
Yes	27.1 (3.5)		10.0 (2.1)

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