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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsy Behav. 2006 Oct 18;10(1):111–119. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.08.012

Table 5.

Characteristics associated with higher epilepsy care knowledge

Characteristic P value
Training (clinical officer 22.9% vs registered nurse 77.1%) 0.07
Type of instruction (clinical demonstration + theory 42.9% vs
either alone 57.2%)
0.02
Fewer years since completing training (range 0–33, mean 9.8,
median 8.0)
0.007
Residential status (urban 58.5% vs rural 41.5%) 0.40
Willingness to provide care scorea 0.51
Has diagnosed case in past 3 months (55.9%) 0.58
Has treated case in past 3 months (90.2%) 0.47
Self-assessment of epilepsy knowledge (4-point Likert scale) <0.0001
a

See Table 2.