Fig 1.
Districts visited are depicted in ivory and their capitals labelled as black dots. Coloured-dots indicate different geolocalisation and categories of health facilities visited. Maps’ base layers were built upon shape files from the Humanitarian Data Exchange (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-moz), licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode).
Table 1.
Characteristics of health providers participating in the study.
Table 2.
Performance of participants on diagnosing and prescribing treatment and advise when presented with three practical cases of noma patients. A correct diagnosis was given 0.75 points and each treatment or advice mentioned was given 0.25 points (except referral which scored 0.5). Data is presented as totals and segregated by highest educational level. Secondary level was omitted as it was only represented by one participant. To assess differences between the two educational levels, Fisher’s exact test was used for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney U test for numerical variables except those with a superscript star (*) which were tested with a T-test as they were parametric. Statistics in bold were statistically significant (p<.05).
Table 3.
Performance of participants on theoretical knowledge of noma. Data is presented as totals and segregated by highest educational level. Secondary level was omitted as it was only represented by one participant. To assess differences between the two educational levels, Fisher’s exact test was used for categorical variables and T-test for numerical variables as they were parametric ( #). Statistics in bold were statistically significant (p<.05). Marks for each question are indicated in the mark scheme in annex.