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Table 1 Effect size (Cohen’s “ d ”) in critical appraisal confidence, attitude and knowledge scores when comparing the different medical student groups

From: Teaching of evidence-based medicine to medical students in Mexico: a randomized controlled trial

 

Critical appraisal confidence score Taylor instrument

Attitude score Taylor instrument

Knowledge score Taylor instrument

Knowledge score EBM MCQ test

M5 EBM vs M4

1.05

1.06

0.91

4.06

M5 EBM vs M5 nonEBM

1.8

1.21

0.88

3.54

M6 vs M4

0.91

0.51

0.40

1.2

M6 vs M5 nonEBM

1.57

0.63

0.37

0.93

M6 vs M5 EBM

0.07

0.67

0.47

1.84