Table 3.

Distribution of primary health care staff with adequate knowledge on infection control

Domains of knowledge	Total (N = 123)	Type of staff				Working at PHCs which provide DOT for MDR-TB			Received on-the-job training on DOT for MDR-TB procedure			Received training on infection control
		Clinical staffa (N = 95)	TB program staff (N = 10)	Other staffb (N = 18)	p	Yes (N = 39)	No (N = 84)	p	Yes (N = 36)	No (N = 87)	p	Yes (N = 75)	No (N = 48)	p
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)		n (%)	n (%)		n (%)	n (%)		n (%)	n (%)
Time to provide education of cough etiquette to patients	91 (74.0)	72 (75.8)	9 (90.0)	10 (55.6)	0.99c	31 (79.5)	60 (71.4)	0.343	29 (80.6)	62 (71.3)	0.399d	57 (76.0)	34 (70.8)	0.524
Cough screening among visitors	47 (38.2)	41 (43.2)	5 (50.0)	1 (5.6)	0.008	11 (28.2)	36 (42.9)	0.120	14 (38.9)	33 (37.9)	0.921	31 (41.3)	16 (33.3)	0.373
Proper setting of fan in outpatient clinic	88 (71.5)	70 (73.7)	9 (90.0)	9 (50.)	0.050	28 (71.8)	60 (71.4)	0.967	29 (80.6)	59 (67.8)	0.154	59 (78.7)	29 (60.4)	0.029
Disposal of tissues used for closing mouth when coughing	105 (84.5)	81 (85.3)	9 (90.0)	15 (83.3)	0.883c	32 (82.1)	73 (86.9)	0.664d	32 (88.9)	73 (83.9)	0.667d	64 (85.3)	41 (85.4)	1.00
Use of respiratory mask	60 (48.8)	48 (50.5)	5 (50.0)	7 (38.9)	0.661	20 (51.3)	40 (47.6)	0.705	18 (50.0)	42 (48.3)	0.862	37 (49.3)	23 (47.9)	0.878
Use surgical masks among patients during transportation	81 (65.9)	58 (61.1)	7 (70.0)	16 (88.9)	0.071	30 (76.9)	51 (60.7)	0.078	28 (77.8)	53 (60.9)	0.073	50 (66.7)	31 (64.6)	0.812

^aClinical staff: medical doctor, nurse, and laboratory staff. ^bOther staff: registration staff, health promotion staff, and environmental health staff. In general, the data analysis used the Pearson chi-square test. Few analyses used the likelihood ratio chi-square test^c and chi-square test with continuity correction^d

TB tuberculosis, PHCs primary health care facilities, DOT direct observed treatment, MDR-TB multidrug-resistant tuberculosis