Assessing the capacity for newborn resuscitation and factors associated with providers’ knowledge and skills: a cross-sectional study in Afghanistan

Table 6 Univariate analysis: association between provider and facility characteristics and provider knowledge and clinical skills in newborn resuscitation

Characteristic*	Overall knowledge			Overall clinical skills
Characteristic*	Beta	SE	P	Beta	SE	P
Facility characteristics
Facility type¹
Provincial hospital	0.50	0.19	0.008	0.19	0.14	0.18
Regional or specialty hospital	0.55	0.24	0.024	0.15	0.18	0.41
Annual number of deliveries:²
Second quintile	0.01	0.27	0.96	0.03	0.19	0.86
Third quintile	0.15	0.27	0.57	−0.07	0.19	0.71
Fourth quintile	0.23	0.28	0.40	0.20	0.19	0.23
Highest quintile	0.23	0.39	0.48	0.08	0.20	0.68
Newborn resuscitation performed in past three months	−0.09	0.52	0.87	0.12	0.26	0.64
Availability of guidelines	0.09	0.11	0.44	−0.06	0.08	0.50
Availability of supplies and equipment	0.05	0.03	0.10	0.02	0.02	0.31
% of infrastructure components	0.11	0.04	0.006	−0.004	0.03	0.89
Provider characteristics
Type of provider	0.04	0.12	0.74	−0.12	0.08	0.13
Years of experience offering EmONC	−0.03	0.01	0.006	−0.003	0.007	0.69
Number of newborn resuscitations performed in past three months	0.001	0.001	0.55	0.002	0.001	0.06
Newborn resuscitation training received	0.64	0.17	<0.001	0.36	0.11	0.002
Confidence in performing resuscitation³
Very confident	1.81	0.25	<0.001	0.84	0.23	<0.001
Somewhat confident, needs coaching	1.48	0.25	<0.001	0.74	0.27	0.007

¹Reference group is CHCs and district hospitals.
²Quintile 1 (lowest) is the reference quintile. Quintile cut-offs are: 547, 1268, 1617, and 4283.
³Reference group is “no confidence”.

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