Table 3 Self-reported level of confidence on various tasks before and after the AMI program
From: An evaluation of cascading mentorship as advocacy training in undergraduate medical education
Task | Pre-Exposure | Post-Exposure | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Median | SD | Mean | Median | SD | p-value | |
Communicating with youth | 3.25 | 3.00 | 0.676 | 3.29 | 3.00 | 0.550 | 1.000 |
Communicating with patient’s family member | 2.83 | 3.00 | 0.637 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.780 | 0.454 |
Communicating with staff who are in a supervisory or care provider role of the youth | 2.83 | 3.00 | 0.868 | 2.83 | 3.00 | 0.816 | 1.000 |
Working with vulnerable populations | 2.54 | 3.00 | 0.833 | 2.88 | 3.00 | 0.680 | 0.039‡ |
Working with children who have mental illness | 2.43 | 2.00 | 1.037 | 2.39 | 2.00 | 0.839 | 1.000 |
Working with children who have a chronic medical illness | 2.13 | 2.00 | 0.947 | 2.13 | 2.00 | 0.741 | 0.754 |
Advocating for the medical needs of your patient | 2.29 | 2.00 | 0.908 | 2.75 | 3.00 | 0.608 | 0.022‡ |
Advocating for the non-medical needs of your patient | 2.29 | 2.00 | 0.955 | 2.67 | 3.00 | 0.761 | 0.013‡ |