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Table 2 Means and standard deviations (SD) of scores on JSE-S for total, AY 2018, group, and AY 2019 group before and after the educational intervention of patient storytelling

From: Using patient storytelling to improve medical students’ empathy in Japan: a pre-post study

  

T1 (pre-test)

T2 (post-test)

95% CL

Groups

N

Mean

(SD)

Mean

(SD)

Difference

t-test

LL

UL

Effect size

Total

159

107.9

(11.7)

111.2

(11.3)

3.3

5.2 **

2.1

4.6

0.4

AY 2018

67

109.3

(10.8)

112.7

(10.3)

3.4

4.3 **

1.9

5.1

0.5

AY 2019

92

106.9

(12.2)

110.2

(11.9)

3.3

3.5 *

1.4

5.1

0.4

  1. CL Confidence interval, LL Lower limit, UL Upper limit
  2. Effect size = Cohen’s d
  3. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01