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Published in final edited form as: J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2009 Jul–Aug;20(4):293–307. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2009.03.005

Table 3.

Urban Health Workers Reported Universal Precautions and HIV Client Teaching

	Comparison of Means or Percents					Multiple Regression (OLS) Coefficient for Post-Intervention vs. Baseline^a
		Baseline (n = 366)	Post-Intervention (n = 561)	t	df	B	Std. Error
Universal Precautions Knowledge
Total UP Knowledge	%					4.26^***	.95
Glove Wearing Knowledge	%	81.28	82.43	1.00	906	2.71^*	1.20
Hand Washing Knowledge	%	88.95	91.01	1.53	917	3.06^*	1.34
Sharps Knowledge	%	62.53	62.23	−.15	921	.10^**	.03
Cleaning Knowledge	%	77.60	81.19	1.80^*	740	5.96^***	1.91
Universal Precautions & Teaching Behavior Self-Reports
Glove Wearing Behavior	Mean (s.d.)	4.87 (.37)	4.88 (.46)	.57	832	.02	.03
Hand Washing Behavior	Mean (s.d.)	4.47 (.72)	4.63 (.66)	3.28^***	840	.13^**	.05
Teaching & Counseling Patients & Families	%	52.47	68.28	7.29^***	888	16.02^***	2.16

Controlling for age, gender, education, food security, and job category UP = Universal Precautions

p <.05, t-test of significance, 1-tailed

^**

p <.01, t-test of significance, 1-tailed

^***

p <.001, t-test of significance, 1-tailed