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Table 4 Factors associated with inadequate knowledge of cholera interventions

From: Healthcare workers knowledge of cholera multi-stranded interventions and its determining factors in North-East Nigeria: planning and policy implications

Variable

Case management

WASH

Surveillance and laboratory

Coordination

Oral cholera vaccine

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

State

     

Adamawa

1.00

Bauchi

    

0.03 (0.01–0.07)

Age, year

0.99 (0.96–1.03) NS

0.99 (0.96–1.04) NS

Sex

     

Female

1.00

1.00

Male

1.51 (0.93–2.47) NS

  

1.22 (0.76–1.97) NS

 

Health facility type

     

Primary

1.00

1.00

Secondary

  

0.82 (0.43–1.58)

0.45 (0.25–0.87)

 

Tertiary

  

1.36 (0.31–6.02) NS

0.46 (0.11–1.84) †

 

Setting

     

Rural

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

Urban

1.49 (0.89–2.50)

 

0.75 (0.43–1.29)

0.51 (0.31–0.86)

0.20 (0.07–0.53)

Peri-urban

3.59 (1.25–10.35)

 

1.04 (0.47–2.31) NS

0.39 (0.18–0.83)

3.54 (1.22–10.25)

Highest level of education

     

Primary

1.00

1.00

1.00

Secondary

  

0.07 (0.02–0.28)

0.58 (0.15–1.97)

1.08 (0.16–7.36)

Post-secondary/tertiary

  

0.06 (0.02–0.23)

0.46 (0.14–1.46)

0.12 (0.04–0.36)

Other

  

0.31 (0.02–3.80) †

3.63 (0.20–64.72) NS

0.10 (0.01–1.04) †

Current position (cadre)$

     

1

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

2

0.11 (0.06–0.22)

4.55 (1.72–11.99)

0.08 (0.04–0.15)

0.07 (0.04–0.14)

1.45 (0.58–3.64)

3

0.93 (0.39–2.22)

2.68 (1.08–6.67)

0.34 (0.18–0.68)

0.71 (0.33–1.52)

2.71 (0.95–7.72)

4

0.44 (0.23–0.87)

3.11 (1.44–6.70)

0.20 (0.11–0.38)

0.22 (0.12–0.41)

1.82 (0.71–4.70) NS

Duration in current position, year

0.98 (0.96–1.00) NS

0.95 (0.92–0.98)

0.98 (0.95–1.02) NS

Previous training in cholera management

     

No

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

Yes

0.42 (0.25–0.71) †

 

0.40 (0.23–0.69)

0.61 (0.35–1.05) NS

0.37 (0.20–0.70)

Participation in a previous cholera outbreak

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

No

0.39 (0.22–0.70)

 

0.58 (0.35–0.94)

0.60 (0.34–1.05) NS

0.49 (0.24–0.99)

Yes

     
  1. Wald’s p-values are presented for binary and continuous variables; LRT p-values are presented for categorical variables
  2. Statistically significant results are in bold
  3. † = p-value < 0.05; ‡ = p-value < 0.001; ns = p-value not statistically significant (i.e.  ≥ 0.05)
  4. $Current position: 1 = CHEW/attendant/cleaner/casual staff; 2 = junior (disease focal person/dispenser) staff; 3 = nurse/laboratorian/data scientist; 4 = senior: clinician/administrative staff/chief nurse