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

Table 3 Effect of China-Gates TB training program on health workers’ knowledge: difference-in-difference model

Independent variables	Dependent variables: knowledge score
Independent variables	(1) Clinical physicians	(2) Public health physicians	(3) Primary care workers
Time (Final = 1; Baseline = 0)	17.26***	8.88**	1.75
Time (Final = 1; Baseline = 0)	(3.09)	(4.34)	(1.41)
Time × Area (pilot area = 1, non-pilot area = 0)	− 2.16	− 4.09	7.97***
Time × Area (pilot area = 1, non-pilot area = 0)	(3.82)	(6.00)	(2.22)
Controls for institution fixed effect and individual characteristics	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sample size	334	168	721
Adjusted R²	0.364	0.558	0.365

Data source: TB health worker survey. Standard deviation in parentheses. Control variables including dummy variables (township-level or institutional fixed effect, gender, permanent post, academic major, professional titles, and job positions) and continuous variables (age, monthly income, years of medical education, and length of service)
TB: Tuberculosis
***P < 0.01, **P < 0.05, *P < 0.1

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