In order for the GOK and donor agencies to strategically invest in expanding pre-service nursing education to scale-up Kenya's health workforce, accurate training capacity and student attrition data is required to support evidenced-based strategies to increase the number of licensed and registered nurses.
Therefore, when establishing nonrandom study attrition, missing data are imputed, using multiple imputation by chained equations.
One way to obtain empirical data on HRH attrition, when the data are not routinely available from a HRIS, is a health facility survey.
However, because poor recruitment, attrition and missing data are commonly high in palliative care studies [ 2- 4] we wished to test a design not previously used in palliative care – a fast track (also called wait list) trial.
22 According to our non-response and attrition analyses, the data are broadly representative of the target population, 22 24 except for men, younger participants, manual workers and those with long sickness absence spells are slightly over-represented among the non-respondents.
However, due to attrition the data were based on a sample of only five carers.
Follow-up continued at six months and one year postpartum, but there was substantial attrition (60% completion), so these data are not presented.
Experimental data are provided for the attrition of particles in a gas-fluidized bed.
For verification and validation purposes, attrition data collection was also conducted for two additional high-density STEM organizations, the EPA and FCC.
* Mann Whitney U not significant The proportion of attrition and missing data was considerable in both groups.
