Knowledge and Practice of Clinicians regarding Syndromic Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Public Health Facilities of Gamo Gofa Zone, South Ethiopia

Table 2

Clinicians knowledge of treatment for STI syndromes in public health facilities of Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2015.

Knowledge of syndromes	Trained (32)	Untrained (218)	Total
Has knowledge of urethral discharge
Yes	12 (37.5%)	56 (25.7%)	68 (27.2%)
No	20 (62.5%)	162 (74.3%)	182 (72.8%)
Has knowledge of vaginal discharge
Yes	5 (15.6%)	43 (19.7%)	48 (19.2%)
No	27 (84.4%)	175 (80.3%)	202 (80.8%)
Has knowledge of genital ulcer
Yes	1 (3.1%)	4 (1.8%)	5 (2.0%)
No	31 (96.9%)	214 (98.2%)	245 (98.0%)
Has knowledge of pregnant women with vaginal discharge
Yes	2 (6.2%)	2 (0.9%)	4 (1.6%)
No	30 (93.8%)	216 (99.1%)	246 (98.4%)

Almost in all the above syndromes the knowledge for each syndrome among both trained and untrained clinicians was far below 50%: that shows that there was no significant difference in knowledge of all the above syndromes.