Evaluation of continuing education of family health strategy teams for the early identification of suspected cases of cancer in children

Table 4 Comparison of intervention and control groups performance pre- and post- intervention

Group	Period of evaluation	Diagnosis of referred children						P value^*
		Confirmed		Not confirmed		Total
		n	%	n	%	n	%
Intervention	Post	87	52.7	195	69.4	282	63.2	0.0013
Intervention	Pre	78	47.3	86	30.6	164	36.8
Total		165	100	281	100	446	100
Control	Post	379	50.1	357	60.1	736	54.5
Control	Pre	378	49.9	237	39.9	615	45.5
Total		757	100	594	100	1351	100

^*calculated as the difference in the percentage of children referred by intervention and control groups in the post-intervention period

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