Table 5: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of health care providers with regards to EOK according to their qualifications.

 

Knowledge

Total

OR (IC)

P

Poor N (%)

Good N (%)

Qualification of health care providers

Medical doctor (M.D.)

2 (100)

0 (0.0)

2

1.7 (0.1-37.8)

0.72

Reproductive health nurse (RHN)

1 (100)

0 (0.0)

1

1 (0.6-26.1)

1.06

State registered nurse (SRN)

7 (58.3)

5 (41.7)

12

0.3 (0.1-1.3)

0.18

Licensed practicing nurse (LPN)

10 (76.9)

3 (23.1)

13

1.1 (0.2-4.6)

0.91

Nursing assistant (NA)

32 (78)

9 (22)

41

1.4 (0.4-4.2)

0.53

Total

52 (75.4)

17 (24.6)

69

5.5 (7.2-74.1)

0.51

 

Attitudes and practices

 

 

 

 

Poor N (%)

Good N (%)

 

 

 

M.D.

1 (50.0)

1 (50.0)

2

0.7 (0.3-9,1)

0.80

RHN

0 (0.0)

1 (100)

1

0.5 (0.5-12.8)

0.72

SRN

8 (66.7)

4 (33.3)

12

4 (1.1-14.9)

0.04

LPN

2 (15.4)

11 (84.6)

13

0.2 (0.8-1.1)

0.06

NA

16 (39)

25 (61)

41

0.9 (0.3-2.6)

0.91

Total

27 (39.1)

42 (60.9)

69

6.3 (1.3-0.5)

0.11

Knowledge

Poor

23 (43.4%)

30 (56.6%)

53

 

 

Good

4 (23.5%)

13 (76.5%)

17

2.4 (0.7-8.6)

0.15

Total

27 (38.6%)

43 (61.4%)

70