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Table 2 Socio-professional characteristics of participants in the health worker survey

From: Transfusion-transmitted malaria: donor prevalence of parasitaemia and a survey of healthcare workers knowledge and practices in a district hospital in Ghana

Characteristics

Number (%)

Gender

 Male

31 (31.0)

 Female

69 (69.0)

Age (years)

 20–30

77 (77.0)

 31–40

11 (11.0)

 41–50

5 (5.0)

 51–60

7 (7.0)

Job category

 Nurse

63 (63.0)

 Nursing student

16 (16.0)

 Lab technician

6 (6.0)

 Lab assistant

2 (2.0)

 Doctors

2 (2.0)

 Pharmacist technician

2 (2.0)

 Pharmacists

1 (1.0)

 Biomedical scientist

1 (1.0)

 Others

7 (7.0)

Period of working life (years)

 <5

74 (74.0)

 5–10

14 (14.0)

 11–15

2 (2.0)

 >15

10 (10.0)