The impact of the community outreaches on the women’s awareness: the questionnaire statistical analysis

This report describes the main results collected through the questionnaire administered to the women during the community outreaches performed from September 2021 to October 2022 at the slums of the communities of Kireka and Kisenyi of Kampala. Precisely an entry questionnaire was submitted in order to assess the prior knowledge of the participants about their own health status and the prevention measures of various infectious diseases: Malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis B (Hep B) and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), including Syphilis. Then, before the exit of the participants from the outreach, another questionnaire (the so called exit questionnaire) was submitted to them by nurses and clinicians to reassess the impact of the health education. The first and second community outreaches were performed in September and November 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemia whose impact on project activities has been significant. Due to this, only summary data are available for these two outreaches. Furthermore, having the questionnaire only open questions, some difficulties arise in the comparison between answers of the entry and the exit sections of the survey related to the impact of the health education training. To overcome this issue, a questionnaire with a few open questions and a guided procedure to memorize the data of the survey were adopted in the last two outreaches. This allowed to obtain raw data and to improve the quality and consistency of the analysis.