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. 2021 Jun 8;20:255. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-03796-x

Table 3.

The effect of the malaria diagnostic refresher training on participants performance in malaria microscopy

Variable Pre-test Post-test P-value
Median (iqr)%
Detection of malaria parasites 64 (18) 87 (14) < 0.001***
Species identification of malaria parasites 17 (22) 78 (29) < 0.001***
Quantification of malaria parasites 20 (25) 50 (50) < 0.001***
Overall malaria microscopy performance 32.7 (17.3) 71.3 (20.7) < 0.001***

iqr: interquartile range

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001