Improving rural and remote practitioners’ knowledge of the diabetic foot: findings from an educational intervention

Table 4 Change in individual knowledge questions –paired pre-test /post-test results (n = 117)

Knowledge questions	Pre-test		Post-test
Knowledge questions	Correct n (%)	95 % CI	Correct n (%)	95 % CI	p-value
People with an amputation are high risk^a	95 (81.2)	74–88	110 (94.0)	90–98.	0.003*
People with a previous foot ulcer are high risk^a	102 (87.5)	81–93	105 (89.7)	84–95	0.664
People with non-palpable pulses (and no other risk factors or previous history) are intermediate risk ^a	27 (23.1)	15–31	38 (32.5)	24–41	0.090
People unable to feel monofilament (and no other risk factors or previous history) are intermediate risk^a	22 (18.8)	12–26	54 (46.2)	37–55	<0.001*
People with a foot deformity (and no other risk factors or previous history) are intermediate risk ^a	25 (21.4)	14–29	72 (61.5)	53–70	<0.001*
People with two foot risks are high risk (and no previous history of amputation or ulceration)^a	103 (88.0)	82–94	103 (88.0)	82–94	1.000
Check low risk feet every 12 months^a	52 (44.4)	35–53	98 (83.8)	77–90	<0.001*
Check high risk feet every 3 months^a	89 (84.6)	68–84	99 (90.6)	78–91	0.248
Palpate two pulses in each foot	67 (57.3)	48–66	102 (87.2)	81–93	<0.001*

^aNHMRC evidence-based recommendations; CI confidence interval; * statistically significant a p-value of < 0.05

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