Table 3.
Change in knowledge, attitude and practice levels - pre- and post-training
| Pretraining | Post-training |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade I | Grade II | Grade III | Grade IV | Total | |
| Knowledge levels | |||||
| Grade I | 0 | 5 (29.5)* | 4 (23.5)* | 8 (47)* | 17 (5) |
| Grade II | 3 (3)¶ | 6 (6) | 40 (39)* | 53 (52)* | 102 (27) |
| Grade III | 2 (1)¶ | 10 (6)¶ | 71 (41) | 89 (52)* | 172 (46) |
| Grade IV | 0¶ | 0¶ | 24 (29)¶ | 58 (71) | 82 (22) |
| Total | 5 (1) | 21 (6) | 139 (37) | 208 (56) | 373 |
| Attitude levels | |||||
| Grade I | 1 (14) | 1 (14)* | 5 (72)* | 0 (0)* | 7 (2) |
| Grade II | 0¶ | 1 (3) | 11 (31)* | 23 (66)* | 35 (9) |
| Grade III | 3 (2)¶ | 2 (1)¶ | 42 (27) | 109 (70)* | 156 (42) |
| Grade IV | 1 (0.5)¶ | 1 (0.5)¶ | 28 (16)¶ | 145 (83) | 175 (47) |
| Total | 5 (1.5) | 5 (1.5) | 86 (23) | 277 (74) | 373 |
| Practice levels | |||||
| Grade I | 0 | 0* | 2 (100)* | 0* | 2 (0.5) |
| Grade II | 0¶ | 2 (13) | 6 (40)* | 7 (47)* | 15 (4) |
| Grade III | 1 (1)¶ | 4 (5)¶ | 25 (30) | 53 (64)* | 83 (22.2) |
| Grade IV | 1 (0.5)¶ | 1 (0.5)¶ | 44 (16)¶ | 227 (83) | 273 (73.1) |
| Total | 2 (0.5) | 7 (1.9) | 77 (20.6) | 287 (76.9) | 373 |
*Shows improvement from their pretest score categories and are an indication of effectiveness of the training. ¶Indicates otherwise