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Table 7 Baseline and 12-week scores with median differences in 12-week matched pair scores

From: Comparison of an interactive with a didactic educational intervention for improving the evidence-based practice knowledge of occupational therapists in the public health sector in South Africa: a randomised controlled trial

Domain

Item (possible score)

Interactive educational intervention (IE)

Didactic educational intervention (DE)

Median difference in matched pairs a (95% CI)

P value for Wilcoxon matched-pairs test

  

Baseline

12 weeks

Baseline

12 weeks

  
  

Median (min to max)

Median (min to max)

Median (min to max)

Median (min to max)

  
  

(n = 28)

(n = 19)

(n = 28)

(n = 19)

n = 19

 

Knowledge

SAFT score (30)

14.0 (2.0 to 23.0)

21.0 (2.0 to 25.0)

14.0 (1.0 to 23.0)

19.0 (9.0 to 24.0)

1.0 (−4.0, 1.0)

0.098

Attitudes

Negative attitudes to EBP (25)

12.0 (9.0 to 18.00)

11.0 (9.0 to 18.0)b

11.0 (9.0 to 16.0)

12.0 (5.0 to 16.0)

0.0 (−2.0, 4.0)

0.728

 

Positive attitudes to EBP (15)

12.5 (9.0 to 15.0)

12.5 (7.0 to 15.0)b

12.5 (9.0 to 15.0)

13.0 (9.0 to 15.0)

−1.0a (−3.0, 1.0)

0.187

 

EBP is useful and important (10)

8.0 (6.0 to 10.0)

8.0 (4.0 to 10.0)b

8.0 (2.0 to 10.0)

8.0 (6.0 to 10.0)

0.0 (−2.0, 0.0)

0.064

  

IE (n = 24)

IE (n = 17)

DE (n = 24)

DE (n = 17)

n = 17

 

Behaviour

Audit (%)

42.9 (13.7 to 60.0)

45.5 (20.0 to 69.4)

36.3 (14.7 to 76.0)

39.7 (23.0 to 68.0)

8.6 (−7.7; 27.0)

0.196

  1. aA negative value indicates that the DE scored higher than the IE.
  2. bMissing data for one participant.
  3. EBP, evidence-based practice; SAFT, Shortened Adapted Fresno Test of Competence in Evidence-based Practice.