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Table 4 Knowledge and beliefs questions

From: The Clean pilot study: evaluation of an environmental hygiene intervention bundle in three Tanzanian hospitals

 

Pre-training

Post-training

p value

# (%)

# (%)

Questions with correct or incorrect answers1

 Whether respondent mentioned “unhygienic surfaces on the ward” as possible cause of umbilical cord infection

3/19 (16%)

12/19 (63%)

 < 0.001

 Correctly answered “what is best to add to water before routine daily cleaning of floors and walls”

2/19 (11%)

7/19 (37%)

0.059

 Correctly answered “when should you empty the sharps bin”

11/19 (58%)

17/19 (89%)

0.034

 

Mean (95% CI)

Mean (95% CI)

p value

Questions with scales of 1–5 (1 = very difficult/strongly disagree; 5 = very easy/strongly agree)2

 Availability of resources for cleaning

   

  How difficult or easy is it to get all the equipment you need for cleaning?

4.1 (3.6–4.6)

3.9 (3.2–4.6)

0.788

  How easy/difficult is it to complete your cleaning tasks in the time available?

3.1 (2.3–3.8)

3.6 (2.9–4.3)

0.424

    If there is not enough chlorine solution, I tell my supervisor and it is supplied

4.8 (4.6–5.0)

4.8 (4.7–5.0)

0.812

  1. *N = 19 respondents
  2. 1p values for these questions were calculated using McNemar’s test
  3. 2p values for these questions were calculated using the sign rank test