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Table 3 Overall and separate KAP scores of community health workers in intervention and control groups

From: Effectiveness of an action-oriented educational intervention in ensuring long term improvement of knowledge, attitudes and practices of community health workers in maternal and infant health: a randomized controlled study

 

Groups

 

Groups

Intervention group

Control group

p-value

 

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

 

t0 (Pre-training)

 -Knowledge (0–61 points)

42.13 ± 6.02

40.50 ± 4.33

0.235*

 - Practices (0–60 points)

45.29 ± 9.64

47.93 ± 6.53

0.220*

 - Attitudes (0–20 points)

19.13 ± 1.78

18.22 ± 2.03

0.037**

 - KAP score (0–141 points)

106.55 ± 12.17

106.59 ± 8.57

0.987*

t2 (One-year after training)

 - Knowledge (0–61 points)

47.45 ± 4.76

40.54 ± 4.07

< 0.001*

 - Practices (0–60 points)

53.45 ± 7.35

49.11 ± 8.20

0.036*

 - Attitudes (0–20 points)

19.74 ± 0.68

18.81 ± 2.35

0.047**

 - KAP score (0–141 points)

120.65 ± 9.55

108.19 ± 10.55

< 0.001*

  1. (*)Student’s t-test (**)Mann-Whitney
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