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Table 1 Demographic and professional information of healthcare workers

From: Knowledge, attitudes, and readiness about critical antimicrobial resistant organisms among healthcare workers at colonial war memorial hospital in Fiji: a pre and post intervention study

Description

Pre-intervention

N = 393

Post-intervention

N = 420

Total

N = 813

P value‡

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Age group (years)

(n = 393)

(n = 419)

(n = 812)

0.65

18–34

262 (66.7)

282(67.3)

544 (67.0)

 

35–44

81 (20.6)

92 (22.0)

173 (21.3)

 

≥ 45

50 (12.7)

45(10.7)

95 (11.7)

 

Gender

(n = 391)

(n = 419)

(n = 810)

0.25

Female

309 (79.0)

317 (75.7)

626 (77.3)

 

Male

82 (21.0)

102 (24.3)

184 (22.7)

 

Years of service

(n = 393)

(n = 419)

(n = 812)

0.02

≤ 12month

35 (8.9)

62 (14.8)

97 (11.9)

 

1–4 years

108 (27.5)

112 (26.7)

220 (27.1)

 

5–10 years

114 (29.0)

130 (31.0)

244 (30.0)

 

> 10 years

136 (34.6)

115 (27.4)

251 (30.9)

 

Profession

(n = 386)

(n = 419)

(n = 805)

0.74

Nurses

220 (57)

233 (55.6)

453 (56.3)

 

Doctors

117 (30.3)

137 (32.7)

254 (31.6)

 

Lab personnel

49 (12.7)

49 (11.7)

98 (12.2)

 

Department

(n = 392)

(n = 414)

(n = 806)

< 0.001

Medical

55 (14.0)

92 (22.2)

147 (18.2)

 

Surgical

58 (14.8)

86 (20.8)

144 (17.9)

 

Paediatrics

76 (19.4)

47 (11.4)

123 (15.3)

 

Obs/Gyn

65 (16.6)

48 (11.6)

113 (14)

 

Laboratory

49 (12.5)

49 (11.8)

98 (12.2)

 

ICU/CCU

46 (11.7)

51 (12.3)

97 (12.0)

 

Emergency

26 (6.6)

34 (8.2)

60 (7.4)

 

Others*

17 (4.3)

7 (1.7)

24 (3.0)

 

IPC training in the past 12 months

(n = 392)

(n = 420)

(n = 812)

< 0.001

Yes

105 (26.8)

191 (45.5)

296 (36.5)

 

No

278 (70.9)

219 (52.1)

497 (61.2)

 

I don’t know

9 (2.3)

10 (2.4)

19 (2.3)

 

Received education on critical AMR in the past 12 month

-

(n = 416)

(n = 416)

-

Yes

NA

191 (45.9)

191 (45.9)

 

No

NA

222 (53.4)

222 (53.4)

 

I don’t know

NA

3 (0.7)

3 (0.7)

 
  1. ‡Comparison of the pre and post intervention findings, *Others include infection control, clinical governance, oncology, and outpatient clinics, ICU = Intensive care unit, CCU = Cardiac care unit, Obs/Gyn = obstetrics and gynaecology, IPC = infection prevention and control, AMR = antimicrobial resistance