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Table 2 Characteristics of school personnel and training

From: Management of anaphylaxis in schools: Evaluation of an epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen®) use by school personnel and comparison of two approaches of soliciting participation

Characteristics

All participants

N = 343

%

Partial Disclosure Group

N = 187

%

Full Disclosure Group

N = 156

%

School personnel 1

 Teachers

65.3

64.2

66.7

 Lunch monitors

18.1

21.9

13.5

 Administrative staff

11.7

10.2

13.5

 Nurses

0.9

1.6

0.0

 Others

2.0

1.6

2.6

Personnel from elementary schools

75.2

69.5

82.1

Prior training

 Overall

89.2

87.2

91.7

 Elementary schools

91.5

91.5

91.4

 Secondary schools

82.4

77.2

92.9

Prior training by nurse

 Overall

93.8

95.1

92.3

 Elementary schools

94.5

95.0

94.0

Prior training using an EpiPen® demonstrator

 Secondary schools

91.4

95.5

84.6

 Overall

66.2

76.1

54.9

 Elementary schools

75.7

88.2

62.9

 Secondary schools

34.3

43.2

19.2

  1. N – Number of participants.
  2. 1 These data are missing for one school.