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Table 4 Positive attitudes of participants toward risk assessment and screening for children under-5 in the pre-post intervention

From: Outcomes of an intervention program for family physicians on well-child care for children under 5 years in Suez Canal region, Egypt

Attitudes

Pretest (n = 39)

Posttest (n = 39)

McNemar p value

n

%

n

%

Referral child with parental hearing and language concerns

12

30.8

37

94.9

< 0.001*

Screening of neonatal hearing deafness loss has benefits

23

59.0

36

92.3

< 0.001*

Tendency of referral neonate for hearing loss screening

11

28.2

30

76.9

< 0.001*

Tendency of inquiring about parents’ concerns for vision of their children

15

38.5

36

92.3

< 0.001*

Performing of vision screening (corneal light reflex and the cover-uncover test) is difficult

23

59.0

36

92.3

< 0.001*

Tendency of performing red reflex testing at each well baby/child care visit

7

17.9

21

53.8

0.001*

Performing age-appropriate screening for anemia is essential

28

71.8

38

97.4

0.002*

Tendency of performing age-appropriate screening for anemia

24

61.5

39

100

< 0.001*

Conducting the Barlow and Ortolani tests is difficult

15

38.5

34

87.2

< 0.001*

  1. .Reverse-coded Likert items
  2. *Statistically significant at p value < 0.05