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Table 2 Characteristics of healthcare workers who participated in the study

From: Organizational contextual factors that predict success of a quality improvement collaborative approach to enhance integrated HIV-tuberculosis services: a sub-study of the Scaling up TB/HIV Integration trial

Characteristics

QI arm

SOC arm

Total

n = 97

n = 112

N = 209

Mean age (years), mean (SD)

39.7 (9.4)

38.7 (8.9)

39.2 (9.1)

Female n (%)

81 (83.5)

97 (86.6)

178 (85.2)

Category of staff—n (%)

 Nurse categories

  Facility managers

12 (12.4)

9 (8.0)

21 (10.0)

  Professional nurses

16 (16.5)

22 (19.6)

38 (18.2)

  Enrolled nurses

22 (22.7)

30 (26.8)

52 (24.9)

 Data capturers

22 (22.7)

22 (19.6)

44 (21.1)

 Lay counsellors

17 (17.5)

25 (22.3)

42 (20.1)

 Other

8 (8.2)

4 (3.6)

12 (5.7)

Mean years of experience, mean (SD) [min-max]

8.8 (4.4) [1–22]

8.4 (5.4) [1–34]

8.6 (4.9) [1–34]

  1. QI quality improvement, SD standard deviation, SOC standard of care