Table 1 Association between level of knowledge, skills, and practices of health workers in malaria management (T3) and demographic characteristics
Variable | Freq n = 103 (%) | Knowledge level | Skills | Practices of health workers on patients | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor | Good | COR (95% CI) | Unskilled | Skilled | COR (95% CI) | All sample n = 333 (%) | Poor | Good | COR (95% CI) | ||
Sex | |||||||||||
Male | 46 (45) | 13 (28) | 33 (72) | 2.3 (1.0, 5.3)** | 40 (43.5) | 6 (54.5) | 1.6 (0.4,5.5) | 156 (47) | 33 (21) | 123 (79) | 1.0 (0.6, 1.6) |
Female | 57 (55) | 27 (47) | 30 (53) | 0.4 (0.2, 1.0)** | 52 (56.5) | 5 (45.5) | 0.6 (0.2,2.3) | 177 (53) | 36 (20) | 141 (80) | 1.1 (0.6, 1.8) |
Age-group | |||||||||||
< 30 | 35 (34) | 16 (46) | 19 (54) | 0.6 (0.3, 1.5) | 32 (34.8) | 3 (27.3) | 0.7 (0.2,2.9) | 256 (77) | 58 (23) | 198 (77) | 0.6 (0.3, 1.2) |
30–39 | 40 (39) | 11 (28) | 29 (73) | 2.2 (0.9, 5.4) | 34 (37.0) | 6 (54.5) | 2.0 (0.6,7.3) | 29 (9) | 2 (7) | 27 (93) | 3.8 (0.9, 16.6)* |
40–49 | 18 (18) | 7 (39) | 11 (61) | 1.0 (0.3,2.8) | 18 (19.6) | 0 (0.0) | – | 14 (4) | 0 (0) | 14 (100) | – |
50 + | 10 (10) | 6 (60) | 4 (40) | 0.4 (0.1,1.5) | 8 (8.7) | 2 (18.2) | 2.3 (0.4,12.9) | 34 (10) | 9 (27) | 25 (74) | 0.7 (0.3, 1.6) |
Level of education | |||||||||||
Secondary | 2 (2) | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 0.6 (0.03, 10.5) | 2 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) | – | 52 (16) | 5 (10) | 47 (90) | 2.8 (1.0, 7.3) |
Tertiary institution | 54 (52) | 21 (39) | 33 (61) | 1.0 (0.4,2.2) | 47 (51.1) | 7 (63.6) | 1.7 (0.5,6.2) | 15 (5) | 4 (27) | 11 (73) | 0.7 (0.2, 2.3) |
University | 47 (46) | 18 (38) | 29 (62) | 1.0 (0.4,2.3) | 43 (46.7) | 4 (36.4) | 0.7 (0.2,2.4) | 4 (1) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) | – |
Cadre | |||||||||||
Lab personnel | 19 (18) | 5 (26) | 14 (74) | 2.0 (0.7,6.1) | 14 (15.2) | 5 (45.5) | 4.6 (1.2 18.1)** | ||||
Clinician | 16 (16) | 5 (31) | 11 (69) | 1.5 (0.5,4.7)** | 15 (16.3) | 1 (9.1) | 0.51 (0.1, 4.4) | ||||
Nurse | 42 (41) | 21 (50) | 21 (50) | 0.5 (0.2,1.0) | 39 (42.4) | 3 (27.3) | 0.5 (0.1, 2.1) | ||||
Medical Officer | 17 (17) | 9 (53) | 8 (47) | 0.5 (0.2,1.5) | 16 (17.4) | 1 (9.1) | 0.5 (0.1, 4.0) | ||||