Table 2. Distribution of the answers of the health professionals about diagnosis and management of congenital and gestational syphilis, according to successes and errors before and after the permanent education workshops, Londrina, PR, Brazil, 2014.

Rated Knowledge	Stage of application of the questionnaire					p*
	Before the Workshop (n = 102)					After the Workshop (n = 85)
	Successes			Errors		Successes			Errors
	n	%	n	%		n	%	n	%
Difference between serologies FTA-Abs e VDRL (NR† = 4)	77	75.5	21	20.6		85	100.0	-	-	< 0.001
Number of exams VDRL‡ mandatory in the PN according to the Rede Mãe Paranaense	79	77.5	23	22.5		85	100.0	-	-	< 0.001
Conduct when the result of the VDRL‡ is reagent	08	7.8	94	92.2		45	47.1	40	52.9	< 0.001
Conduct when the diagnosis of gestational syphilis is confirmed in the PN§	73	71.6	29	28.4		78	91.8	07	8.2	0.461
Procedures for controlling and monitoring gestational syphilis	55	53.9	47	46.1		77	90.6	08	9.4	0.002
Syphilis Notification	09	8.8	93	91.2		25	29.4	60	70.6	< 0.001
Therapeutic scheme recommended for primary syphilis (NR† = 2)	58	56.9	42	42.0		84	98.8	01	1.2	< 0.001
Therapeutic scheme recommended for secondary syphilis (NR† = 5)	56	57.7	41	42.2		76	89.4	09	10.6	< 0.001
Therapeutic scheme recommended for tertiary syphilis(NR† = 5)	63	64.9	34	35.1		85	100.0	-	-	< 0.001
Monitoring of the RN of the mother diagnosed with syphilis during pregnancy	56	54.9	46	45.1		81	95.3	04	4.7	< 0.001

*McNemar test for correlated frequencies; ^†Number of unanswered questions that modified the sample total; ^‡VDRL - Venereal Disease Research Laboratory - Non-treponemal test; ^§PN - prenatal