Factors influencing awareness of healthcare providers on maternal sepsis: a mixed-methods approach

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Characteristics of respondents and the facilities in which they worked as self-reported by respondents (N = 1555)^a

Characteristic	N	%
Respondent characteristics
Age (N=1398)
<31	401	28.7
31–40	460	32.9
>40	537	38.4
Gender (N=1404)
Male	345	24.6
Female	1059	75.4
Qualification (N=1402)
Nurse/auxiliary nurse	245	17.5
Midwife	264	18.8
Physician	724	51.6
Resident	169	12.1
Years of experience (N=1327)
<10	613	46.2
10–20	425	32.0
>20	289	21.8
Region^b (N= 1425)
Africa (14 countries)	259	18.2
Asia (8 countries)	191	13.4
Eastern Mediterranean (5 countries)	246	17.3
Europe (11 countries)	238	16.7
Latin America (11 countries)	491	34.5
Facility characteristics^c
Location (N=1384)
Urban	1288	93.1
Rural	96	6.9
Management (N=1391)
Public	1150	82.7
Private/NGO/other	241	17.3

^aBecause respondents were allowed to leave questions unanswered, N for each question varied
^bFor each of the regions, the following countries are included: AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
ASIA: India, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Sudan
EUROPE: Denmark, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Tajikistan, and United Kingdom
LATIN AMERICA: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Uruguay
^cOut of the 632 facilities participating in GLOSS, 80% were in urban settings and 20% in non-urban areas; and 69% were public and 31% private/NGO/other. Description of the selection of participating facilities can be found elsewhere [3]

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