Improving local health workers’ knowledge of malaria in the elimination phase—determinants and strategies: a cross-sectional study in rural China

Table 4 Malaria knowledge level between participants within and beyond the coverage of thematic series

Factors	No thematic series attended		Thematic series attended		χ ²	p
Factors	No. with high-level knowledge regarding malaria/total no.	%	No. with high-level knowledge regarding malaria/total no.	%	χ ²	p
Endemic type of county					36.379	0.00
Type 1	46/54	0.85	32/40	0.80
Type 2	41/55	0.75	70/90	0.88
Type 3	22/56	0.39	42/65	0.65
Type of organization					14.467	0.00
County hospitals	35/53	0.66	43/54	0.80
CDCs	39/50	0.78	40/46	0.87
Township hospitals	18/28	0.64	38/45	0.84
Village clinics	16/32	0.50	28/45	0.62
Education					3.542	0.17
Undergraduate and above	34/47	0.72	49/62	0.79
College	32/48	0.67	51/57	0.90
High school and below	31/47	0.66	32/46	0.70
Work experience					0.677	0.88
≤5 years	22/30	0.73	15/22	0.68
6–10 years	20/31	0.65	34/41	0.83
11–20 years	33/51	0.65	38/50	0.76
>20 years	34/53	0.64	66/82	0.81

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