Knowledge, attitude, and preparedness toward IPV care provision among nurses and midwives in Tanzania

Table 3 Associations between demographic characteristics and IPV perceived knowledge, actual knowledge, attitude, and preparedness scores (N = 461)

	IPV perceived knowledge (high ≥ 14)		P value	IPV actual knowledge (high ≥ 15)		P value	IPV attitude (high ≥ 36)		P value	IPV care preparedness (high ≥ 14)		P value
	n	%	P value	n	%	P value	n	%	P value	n	%	P value
Level of facility
Hospital	233	60.7	0.430	193	50.3	0.006	205	53.4	0.416	205	53.4	0.546
Health center	43	55.8		52	67.5		45	58.4		44	57.1
Facility ownership
Government	172	56.8	0.060	159	52.5	0.690	170	56.1	0.263	157	51.8	0.190
Non-government	104	65.8		86	54.4		80	50.6		92	58.2
Gender
Male	91	67.4	0.034	80	59.3	0.090	71	52.6	0.650	82	60.7	0.062
Female	185	56.7		165	50.6		179	54.9		167	52.1
Level of education
Certificate	124	56.4	0.142	116	52.7	0.864	121	55.0	0.751	117	53.2	0.732
Diploma/Bachelor’s/Master’s	152	63.1		129	53.5		129	53.5		132	54.8
Work experience
≤ 5 years	127	65.1	0.049	96	49.2	0.149	108	55.4	0.670	108	55.4	0.613
> 5 years	149	56.0		149	56.0		142	53.4		141	53.0
Use of guidelines^#
No	91	48.1	< 0.001	86	45.5	0.006	112	59.3	0.071	82	43.4	< 0.001
Yes	185	68.0		159	58.5		138	50.7		167	61.4
Preservice IPV training
No/does not remember	163	59.1	< 0.001	167	68.2	0.105	185	56.2	0.173	162	49.2	0.001
Yes	113	40.9		78	31.8		65	49.2		87	65.9
In-service IPV training
No/does not remember	194	54.0	< 0.001	181	50.4	0.028	204	56.8	0.036	179	49.9	0.001
Yes	82	80.4		64	62.7		46	45.1		70	68.6

A chi-square test was conducted
^#Availability and use of standard operating procedure (SOP) or protocol/guideline for IPV services

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