Conclusion Our questionnaire sheds light on three major points: a discomfort about key decisions of active therapeutic limitations, a fair knowledge of legal documents, together with a strong demand for an update and teaching of these texts.
Whether ICU caregivers have a fair knowledge of long-term outcomes of ICU patients is unknown.
This procedure demands a fair knowledge of the experts in the manuscript's area of knowledge from both authors and editors.
Responses to the open-ended questions were translated into English by the first author who has a fair knowledge of Swahili.
Respondents with scores 0 1 were considered to have poor knowledge, those with 2 points had a fair knowledge while those with 3 4 points had good knowledge.
No respondent had an excellent knowledge of the issues; only one respondent (0.7%), a doctor, had good knowledge, 13 people (8.5%), also mostly doctors, had a fair knowledge, while about 91% had poor knowledge.
Generally, with regard to knowledge of HIV/AIDS, 126 (36%) of the respondents had a good to excellent knowledge, 98 (28%) had a fair knowledge, and another 126 (36%) had a very poor to poor knowledge.
In rating their knowledge of evolution, 68.6% (n = 24) contended their knowledge of evolution was either excellent or good whereas 31.4% (n = 11) maintained an average or fair knowledge of evolution.
I have fair knowledge of enterprise finance 0.64 0.21 −0.27 7. Close friends approve my decision of starting a business −0.16 0.70 0.16 −0.16 0.25 8.
Knowledge of 0-2 = poor, Knowledge of 3-4 = fair, Knowledge of 5 and above = good.
This result implies that knowledge of obstetric care givers on partograph may be inadequate for better utilization of partograph in public health institutions and this seems somewhat comparable with the same study done in Nigeria [ 9] in which more than half of the respondents had fair knowledge of the partograph, while less than one-third of them had a good knowledge of it.
