Training Sri Lankan public health midwives on intimate partner violence: a pre- and post-intervention study

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Table 3 Comparison of participants’ pre- and post-intervention intimate partner violence (IPV) knowledge scores

Variable	Pre-intervention		Post-intervention		z-score	p-value
Variable	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	z-score	p-value
Total knowledge scores
Acts of IPV^*	0.83	0.67–1.00	1.00	1.00–1.00	−11.55	<0.001
Health effects of IPV^*	0.50	0.25–0.75	1.00	0.75–1.00	−15.09	<0.001
Laws against IPV^*	0.50	0.33–0.50	0.67	0.67–0.83	−16.41	<0.001
Combined IPV knowledge score^*	0.62	0.43–0.81	0.88	0.82–0.94	−17.35	<0.001

^*A detailed comparison of the itemized knowledge scores is provided in Table A2. IQR: interquartile range.

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