Table 2.
Pre-intervention and post-intervention scores of knowledge and attitude among the participant groups
| Knowledge | |||||
| Clinicians (n=75) % (IQR) |
Nurses (n=211) % (IQR) |
Medical students (n=205) % (IQR) |
Nursing students (n=123) % (IQR) |
DMLT students (n=36) % (IQR) |
|
| Percentage of correct responses | |||||
| Pre-intervention, median (IQR) | 45 (15) | 30 (19) | 29 (14) | 30 (19) | 22 (14) |
| Post-intervention, median (IQR) | 59 (14) | 48 (26) | 64 (21) | 59 (26) | 52 (17) |
| Difference | 14* | 18* | 35* | 29* | 30* |
| Attitude | |||||
| Percentage of responses without stigma | |||||
| Pre-intervention, median (IQR) | 79 (18) | 74 (15) | 74 (18) | 76 (12) | 66 (35) |
| Post-intervention, median (IQR) | 82 (11) | 79 (12) | 84 (16) | 82 (9) | 83 (14) |
| Difference | 3* | 5* | 10* | 5* | 17* |
*Statistically significant differences with significance level p<0.05.
DMLT, students of Diploma in Medical and Laboratory Technology; IQR, Interquartile range; Medical students/ MBBS students, students of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.