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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Applying the WHO-ICRC BEC course to train emergency and inpatient healthcare workers in Sierra Leone early in the COVID-19 outbreak

 

Kono

(n = 13)

Freetown

(n = 18)

Combined

(n = 31)

 Completed immediate post-training confidence assessment n (%)

13 (100%)

18 (100%)

31 (100%)

 Completed immediate post-training knowledge assessment n (%)

13 (100%)

18 (100%)

31 (100%)

 Completed month 6 confidence assessment n (%)

7 (54%)

13 (72%)

20 (65%)

 Completed month 6 knowledge assessment n (%)

6 (46%)

9 (50%)

15 (48%)

Work area

 Intensive care unit n (%)

1 (8%)

3 (17%)

4 (13%)

 Emergency unit n (%)

5 (38%)

4 (22%)

5 (16%)

 Medical ward n (%)

7 (54%)

11 (61%)

22 (71%)

Role

 Nurse n (%)

10 (77%)

16 (89%)

26 (84%)

 Community health officer n (%)

3 (23%)

0

3 (10%)

 Doctor n (%)

0

1 (6%)

1 (3%)

 Other n (%)

0

1 (6%)

1 (3%)