Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries

Table 3 Comparison of participant scores in the pre- and post-test and proportions with a passing grade at the 70% cutoff by country

Country	N	Mean ± SD			95% CI	t value*	Pre-test pass ≥ 70% N (%)	Post-test pass ≥ 70% N (%)
Country	N	Pre-test	Post-test	Increase	95% CI	t value*	Pre-test pass ≥ 70% N (%)	Post-test pass ≥ 70% N (%)
Angola	436	0.57 ± 0.10	0.68 ± 0.10	0.11 ± 0.09	(0.10, 0.12)	25.02	56 (13)	212 (49)
Burundi	74	0.27 ± 0.11	0.69 ± 0.10	0.42 ± 0.12	(0.39, 0.45)	29.76	0 (0)	34 (46)
Kenya	350	0.72 ± 0.14	0.89 ± 0.07	0.17 ± 0.15	(0.16, 0.19)	22.22	203 (58)	350 (100)
Lesotho	372	0.59 ± 0.14	0.69 ± 0.12	0.10 ± 0.10	(0.09, 0.11)	18.85	99 (27)	199 (53)
Malawi	339	0.56 ± 0.11	0.74 ± 0.11	0.18 ± 0.12	(0.17, 0.19)	27.87	35 (10)	235 (69)
Rwanda	409	0.59 ± 0.11	0.73 ± 0.10	0.13 ± 0.12	(0.12, 0.15)	22.97	54 (10)	230 (56)
Sierra Leone	306	0.54 ± 0.14	0.70 ± 0.13	0.16 ± 0.12	(0.15, 0.18)	23.88	31 (10)	176 (58)
Zambia	84	0.62 ± 0.12	0.70 ± 0.10	0.09 ± 0.13	(0.06, 0.11)	6.03	27 (32)	45 (54)
Total	2370	0.59 ± 0.15	0.73 ± 0.13	0.15 ± 0.13	(0.14, 0.13)	55.09	505 (21)	1481 (62)

Results are expressed as mean and standard deviation of scores obtained in pre- and post-tests. Significance obtained using paired t-test
SD standard deviation
*All paired t-tests were highly statistically significant at a p-value of < 0.0001Kenya’s pre- and post-tests were distributed by module, not as a singular cumulative test post-exposure to all modules

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