Comparison of ‘Mental training’ and physical practice in the mediation of a structured facial examination: a quasi randomized, blinded and controlled study

Table 1 Average scores obtained by the ‘Mental Training’ (MT) and ‘See One, Do One’ (SODO) group in the OSCE (48 possible points) and corresponding significance levels. Data are presented as Mean ± SD

	Group	T1	T2	P-Value	Effect Size (Cohen’s d)
Rater 1	MT	38.9 (± 6.5)	40.1 (± 4.4)	0.10 (M)	0.35
	SODO	33.5 (± 5.9)	39.2 (± 4.6)	0.0002 (M)	1.07
	P-Value	0.00012 (M)	0.04 (M)
	Effect Size (Cohen’s d)	0.86	0.38
Rater 2	MT	37.7 (± 6.0)	40 (± 5.9)	0.06 (M)	0.63
	SODO	33.6 (± 6.5)	36.6 (± 5.5)	0.06 (M)	0.50
	P-Value	0.004 (M)	0.008 (M)
	Effect Size (Cohen’s d)	0.66	0.64

(M) = Mann-Whitney-White U test for ordinally distributed data
(T1) = directly after the intervention, (T2) = five to ten weeks after the intervention

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