Table 1 Characteristics of district surveillance officers in Ethiopia, September 2019
Demographics | Number | Percent | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FETP-Frontline Trained (n = 74) | FETP-Frontline Untrained (n = 76) | FETP-Frontline Trained | FETP-Frontline Untrained | ||
Sex (Male) | 56 | 54 | 75.7 | 71.1 | 0.522* |
Region | |||||
 Oromia | 22 | 22 | 29.7 | 28.9 | 0.998¥ |
 Addis Ababa | 16 | 17 | 21.6 | 22.4 |  |
 Amhara | 12 | 12 | 16.2 | 15.8 |  |
 SNNPR | 9 | 11 | 12.2 | 14.5 | |
 Tigray | 8 | 7 | 10.8 | 9.2 | |
 Afar | 7 | 7 | 9.5 | 9.2 |  |
Education | |||||
 University first degree | 62 | 51 | 83.8 | 67.1 | 0.051¥ |
 TVE/Diploma | 8 | 22 | 10.8 | 28.9 | |
 Master’s degree | 3 | 2 | 4.1 | 2.6 | |
 Other | 1 | 1 | 1.4 | 1.3 | |
Profession | |||||
 Nurse | 27 | 42 | 36.5 | 55.3 | 0.014¥ |
 Public Health | 28 | 26 | 37.8 | 34.2 | |
 Environmental Health | 14 | 2 | 18.9 | 2.6 | |
 Laboratory Technician | 1 | 1 | 1.4 | 1.3 | |
 Other | 4 | 5 | 5.4 | 6.6 | |
Types of additional training received | |||||
 PHEM basic training | 63 | 37 | 85.1 | 48.7 |  < 0.001* |
 Malaria | 49 | 32 | 66.2 | 42.1 |  < 0.001* |
 Vaccine preventable diseases | 55 | 32 | 74.3 | 42.1 | 0.003* |