Effects of summer internship and follow-up distance mentoring programs on middle and high school student perceptions and interest in health careers

Table 1 Assessment measure results and significance levels

		At Enrollment			At Post Internship			At Post Distance Mentorship
Measures	School Level	N ^a	Mean Scores & Standard Deviations	p values MW/Wilcoxon	N ^a	Mean Scores & Standard Deviations	p values MW^d/Wilcoxon	N ^a	Scale Range	Mean Scores & Standard Deviations	p values MW^d/Wilcoxon
Kuder Assessment – Health	Middle	25	2.6 ± 0.0.57	.09	22	2.64 ± 0.58	.54	19	1–3	2.63 ± 0.59	.66
	High	28	2.86 ± 0.35	–	19	2.74 ± 0.56	–	10		2.70 ± 0.67	–
	Average		2.74 ± 0.48	–		2.6 ± 0.56	.77			2.66 ± 0.61	19.99
Kuder Assessment – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math	Middle	25	2.20 ± 0.70	.58	24	2.23 ± 0.68	.99	17	1–3	2.05 ± 0.70	.75
	High	25	2.32 ± 0.61	–	25	2.26 ± 0.56	–	10		2.20 ± 0.42	–
	Average		2.26 ± 0.65	–		2.2 ± 0.6	.99			2.1 ± 0.6	23.27
Health Science Knowledge/Interest Inventory Education level	Middle	25	5.48 ± 0.56	.74	24	5.7 ± 0.44	.50	17	1–7	5.8 ± 0.5	0.04^c
	High	25	5.52 ± 0.47	–	25	5.53 ± 0.49	–	10		5.5 ± 0.3	–
	Average		5.50 ± 0.51	–		5.61 ± 0.47^b	.0.012^b			5.72 ± 0.46^b	0.007^b, .074
Essay	Middle	25	8.36 ± 3.8	.54	18	10.22 ± 2.13	–	18	1–7	15.7 ± 0.5	.78
	High	28	7.43 ± 1.7	–	15	15.2 ± 2.8^b	.0008^b	15		15.6 ± 2.4	–
	Average		7.8 ± 2.9	–		12.4 ± 3.5^c	.0001^b			15.7 ± 1.8^c	0.001^b, .001

^a Number of students, ^bPost internship and post mentoring means significantly higher than pre-internship, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Exact Test, ^cPost mentoring mean significantly higher for middle school than high school students, Mann Whitney Exact Test. ^dPost internship mean significantly higher for high school than middle school students, Mann Whitney Exact Test

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