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Table 4 The Pain Knowledge Scores of Both Groups Before and After Receiving Pain Instruction

From: Multimedia-assisted instruction on pain assessment learning of new nurses: a quasi-experimental study

Topic

Control group (n = 39)

Experimental group (n = 47)

Pre-test

Mean ± SD

Post-test

Mean ± SD

Improve

Mean ± SD

t-value

Pre-test

Mean ± SD

Post-test

Mean ± SD

Improve

Mean ± SD

t-value

1. Pain assessment

2.41 ± 0.50

2.44 ± 0.64

0.03 ± 0.58

0.27

2.61 ± 0.49

2.80 ± 0.40

0.20 ± 0.51

2.45*

2. Pain treatment

1.72 ± 0.72

1.85 ± 0.67

0.13 ± 0.83

0.96

1.81 ± 0.74

2.00 ± 0.51

0.19 ± 0.74

1.77

3. Pain medication

2.77 ± 0.43

2.79 ± 0.47

0.03 ± 0.58

0.27

2.67 ± 0.52

2.83 ± 0.38

0.15 ± 0.56

1.86

Overall scale

6.90 ± 0.97

7.08 ± 0.90

0.18 ± 1.12

1.00

7.07 ± 0.93

7.73 ± 0.67

0.66 ± 0.88

4.77**

  1. Improve improvement between tests, SD standard deviation; *p < .05, **p < .01