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Table 3 Self-efficacy for asking older patients questions about abuse and managing the response

From: Testing an educational intervention to improve health care providers’ preparedness to care for victims of elder abuse: a mixed method pilot study

 

Intervention group

(n = 16)

Control group

(n = 14)

Between group comparisons

 

Mean

SD

P-value

Mean

SD

p-value

Mean

SD

p-value

Self-efficacy asking questions

         

  Baseline

16.3

3.5

 

19.6

5.3

 

3.3

1.6

0.05

  6 months follow up

19.2

3.0

 

19.4

5.5

 

0.2

1.6

0.92

  Difference in mean

2.9

5.0

0.04

-0.3

5.2

0.84

3.2

1.9

0.10

Self-efficacy managing the response

         

  Baseline

24.3

7.3

 

24,9

8.2

 

0.7

2.8

0.81

  6 months follow up

28.1

7.6

 

27.8

11.4

 

-0.2

3.5

0.95

  Difference in mean

3.8

6.7

0.04

2.8

6.6

0.14

1.0

2.5

0.70

  1. Significant changes (p < 0.05) between baseline and 6 months follow-up are written in bold and have been calculated using paired t-tests