The effectiveness of E-learning in continuing medical education for tuberculosis health workers: a quasi-experiment from China

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of TB knowledge change of pre-and post-training for TB health workers (mean ± standard deviation, full marks = 100)

		Baseline knowledge score			Final knowledge score
		Clinical physicians	Public health physicians	Primary care workers	Clinical physicians	Public health physicians	Primary care workers
Total		65 ± 21	65 ± 16	79 ± 19	82 ± 19***	71 ± 14***	85 ± 16***
Intervention	Non-pilot areas	66 ± 22	63 ± 19	82 ± 18	84 ± 17***	72 ± 14*	86 ± 14
Intervention	Pilot areas	63 ± 20	66 ± 13	74 ± 19	80 ± 20***	70 ± 15*	84 ± 17***
Training participation	Never participated	-	-	-	81 ± 20	68 ± 18	83 ± 17
	Participated in asynchronous activities	-	-	-	83 ± 19	73 ± 11	90 ± 13
	Participated in synchronous activities	-	-	-	83 ± 18	-	-

Data source: TB health worker survey. CDCs Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
***P < 0.01, **P < 0.05, *P < 0.1 for pre-post difference

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