Table 2.
Demographics of individual participants.
| Variablea | Ghana (N=915), n (%) |
Latin America (N=142), n (%) |
Remote learning group (N=204), n (%) |
Total (N=1261), n (%) |
|
| Profession | |||||
|
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Preservice (student) | 597 (65.2) | 106 (74.6) | 93 (45.6) | 796 (63.12) |
|
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Medical doctor | 4 (0.4) | 28 (19.7) | 12 (5.9) | 44 (3.49) |
|
|
Nurse and midwife | 228 (24.9) | — | 8 (3.9) | 236 (18.72) |
|
|
Nutritionist | 21 (2.3) | 8 (5.6) | 16 (7.8) | 45 (3.57) |
|
|
Public health | 25 (2.7) | — | 12 (5.9) | 37 (2.93) |
|
|
Other | 40 (4.4) | — | 63 (30.9) | 103 (8.17) |
| Health care and academic institutions | |||||
|
|
Hospital-based | 186 (20.3) | 28 (19.7) | — | 214 (16.97) |
|
|
Community-based | 132 (14.4) | 8 (5.6) | — | 140 (11.10) |
|
|
Universities | 213 (23.3) | 106 (74.6) | — | 319 (25.30) |
|
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Training colleges | 384 (42.0) | — | — | 384 (30.45) |
|
|
Remote learning group | — | — | 204 (100) | 204 (16.18) |
| Regular close involvement with SAMb children (in-service only) | |||||
|
|
Yes | 265 (86.9) | 34 (94.4) | 41 (77.4) | 340 (86.3) |
|
|
No | 40 (13.1) | 2 (5.6) | 12 (22.6) | 54 (13.7) |
| Aware of the WHOc Ten Steps for management of SAM | |||||
|
|
Yes | 287 (35.0) | 50 (35.5) | 52 (53.6) | 389 (36.73) |
|
|
No | 534 (65.0) | 91 (64.5) | 45 (46.4) | 670 (63.27) |
| Received training in the management of SAM in the past | |||||
|
|
Yes | 294 (34.2) | 61 (43.0) | 30 (30.6) | 385 (35.03) |
|
|
No | 565 (65.8) | 81 (57.0) | 68 (69.4) | 714 (64.97) |
| Received training about the WHO Ten Steps | |||||
|
|
Yes | 107 (24.2) | 32 (53.3) | 14 (30.4) | 153 (27.9) |
|
|
No | 335 (75.8) | 28 (46.7) | 32 (69.6) | 395 (72.1) |
| Following the WHO Ten Steps at work (in-service only) | |||||
|
|
Yes | 33 (28.2) | 6 (35.3) | 15 (71.4) | 54 (34.8) |
|
|
No | 84 (71.8) | 11 (64.7) | 6 (28.6) | 101 (65.2) |
aTotals do not always add up to the number of participants as some questions were not answered by all.
bSAM: severe acute malnutrition.
cWHO: World Health Organization.