Predictors of health workers’ knowledge about artesunate-based severe malaria treatment recommendations in government and faith-based hospitals in Kenya

Table 2 Characteristics of study health workers

Health worker characteristics	Government hospitals		Faith based hospitals
	N = 367		N = 330
	n	%	n	%
Gender
Male	140	38.1	161	48.8
Female	227	61.9	169	51.2
Age (years)^a
35–70	138	37.6	57	17.4
21–35	229	62.4	271	82.6
Pre-service training
Clinician	175	47.7	156	47.3
Nurse	192	52.3	174	52.7
Inpatient experience (years)^b
< 5	203	55.8	249	75.5
> 5	161	44.2	81	24.5
Ward allocation
Paediatric	185	50.4	168	50.9
Medical	182	49.6	162	49.1
Malaria endemicity
High	102	27.8	88	26.7
Low	265	72.2	242	73.3
Exposure to artesunate interventions
Case management training	87	23.7	66	20.0
Malaria guideline	118	32.2	131	39.7
Supportive supervision	39	10.6	29	8.8
Artesunate administration poster	224	61.0	157	47.6
Artesunate in stock	276	75.2	257	77.9

^a Denominator excludes 2 health workers with missing information in faith-based hospitals
^b Denominator excludes 3 health workers with missing information in government hospitals

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