## 3 Results
### Effect of Demographics on Participants' Knowledge and Skills  
Stepwise linear regression analysis was used to identify the statistically significant influence of the demographic variables on participants knowledge and skills mean scores in the three assessments (Table 5). \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Assessment**} & \multirow{2}{*}{**MCH Component**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Unstandardized**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Standardized**} \\  & & & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Coefficients**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Coefficients**} \\ \hline  & & **Model** & & **B\({}^{1}\)** & **Std. Error** & **Beta\({}^{2}\)** & **T\({}^{3}\)** & \(p\)-Value\({}^{4}\) \\ \hline
2017 & Reproductive and & & & & & & & \\ Pre-intervention & sexual health & 1 & (Constant) & 48.0 & 4.6 & & 10.4 & 0.000 \\  & Maternal and & & Female & 11.6 & 5.3 & 0.3 & 2.2 & 0.033 \\  & antenatal care & 1 & (Constant) & 58.2 & 11.7 & & 5.0 & 0.000 \\  & & Female & 12.3 & 13.4 & 0.1 & 1.0 & 0.364 \\  & & Prior exposure (yes) & \(-\)7.9 & 13.9 & \(-\)0.1 & \(-\)0.6 & 0.573 \\  & Neonatal and child & & (Constant) & 37.5 & 2.7 & & 13.8 & 0.000 \\  & care & & Prior exposure (yes) & 25.4 & 5.9 & 0.5 & 4.3 & 0.000 \\ \hline
2017 Post & Reproductive and & & & & & & & \\ intervention & sexual health & 1 & (Constant) & 75.3 & 4.9 & & 15.4 & 0.000 \\  & Maternal and & & Female & \(-\)4.0 & 5.6 & \(-\)0.1 & \(-\)0.7 & 0.480 \\  & antenatal care & 1 & (Constant) & 70.6 & 5.3 & & 13.3 & 0.000 \\  & Neonatal and child & & Female & 12.4 & 6.1 & 0.3 & 2.0 & 0.049 \\  & & & (Constant) & 69.0 & 4.1 & & 17.0 & 0.000 \\  & & Female & 7.0 & 4.7 & 0.2 & 1.5 & 0.140 \\  & & Prior exposure (yes) & 8.0 & 4.8 & 0.2 & 1.7 & 0.104 \\  & Infant growth & & & (Constant) & 65.2 & 5.9 & & 11.1 & 0.000 \\  & assessment skills & & Female & 9.7 & 6.8 & 0.2 & 1.4 & 0.161 \\  & & Prior exposure (yes) & 7.3 & 7.0 & 0.2 & 1.0 & 0.303 \\  & & 2 & (Constant) & 73.3 & 3.6 & & 20.2 & 0.000 \\  & & African language & 2.4 & 6.1 & 0.1 & 0.4 & 0.693 \\ \hline
2019 Post & Reproductive and & & & & & & & \\ intervention & sexual health & 1 & (Constant) & 68.2 & 4.1 & & 16.5 & 0.000 \\  & & Female & 1.7 & 4.8 & 0.1 & 0.4 & 0.727 \\  & & (Constant) & 73.3 & 2.4 & & 30.3 & 0.000 \\  & & African language & \(-\)7.3 & 4.0 & \(-\)0.3 & \(-\)1.8 & 0.076 \\  & Maternal and & & (Constant) & 55.0 & 5.7 & & 9.7 & 0.000 \\  & antenatal care & & Female & 5.3 & 6.6 & 0.1 & 0.8 & 0.420 \\  & Neonatal and child & & (Constant) & 56.9 & 5.3 & & 10.7 & 0.000 \\  & & Female & 6.8 & 6.1 & 0.2 & 1.1 & 0.269 \\  & & Prior exposure & 15.2 & 6.3 & 0.3 & 2.4 & 0.020 \\  & infant growth & & (Constant) & 51.8 & 7.7 & & 6.7 & 0.000 \\  & assessment skills & & Female & \(-\)0.6 & 8.9 & \(-\)0.0 & \(-\)0.1 & 0.943 \\  & & (Constant) & 61.0 & 4.5 & & 13.4 & 0.000 \\  & & African language & \(-\)16.6 & 7.6 & \(-\)0.3 & \(-\)2.2 & 0.034 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} \({}^{1}\) B column contains the unstandardized beta coefficients that depict the magnitude and direction of the effect on the outcome variable.  
\({}^{2}\) Beta column presents unstandardized beta coefficients for each predictor variable. \({}^{3}\) Tolerance column presents values related to assessing multicollinearity among the predictor variables. \({}^{4}\)\(p\)-value is less than 0.05, then that variable has a significant association with the outcome variable.  
\end{table} 
Table 5: Stepwise linear regression analysis of the effects of participants demographic variables on knowledge and skills scores. Being female was on average associated with a higher mean score of 11.6% (\(p\) = 0.033) when responding to reproductive and sexual health questions (\(\beta\) = 11.6), and there was a 14% (\(\beta\) = 14.1) increase in female participants' infant growth assessment skills scores (\(p\) = 0.044) compared to males in the 2017 pre-intervention assessment. It was also associated with a higher mean score of 12% in maternal and antenatal care (\(\beta\) = 12.4) in the 2017 post intervention assessment.