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Table 3 Associations of BBNAS scores with sex and physician/student position

From: Development and validation of The Breaking Bad News Attitudes Scale

 

SPIKES concordance

BBN training

Women (n = 442)

35.39 (5.04)

13.73 (2.31)

Men (n = 121)

33.63 (7.03)

13.25 (2.80)

ANOVA results

F(1,559) = 7.49; p = 0.006

F(1,559) = 2.54, p = 0.11

Physician (n = 484)

34.93 (5.54)

13.49 (2.43)

Student (n = 79)

35.51 (4.93)

14.49 (1.97)

ANOVA results

F(1,559) = 0.52, p = 0.47

F(1,559) = 9.58, p = 0.002

  1. BBNAS Breaking Bad News Attitudes Scale, BBN Breaking Bad News. Values are means and (standard deviation)