Table 4.

Descriptive statistics for nurses’ self-reported knowledge and confidence in suicide safety planning based on survey responses over timea.

	Pretraining (n=18), mean (SD; 95% CIb)	Posttraining (n=14), mean (SD; 95% CIb)	6-months follow-up (n=13), mean (SD; 95% CIb)
Knowledge	1.4 (0.7; 1.0-1.7)	3.1 (0.5; 2.8-3.4)	3.4 (0.4; 3.2-3.6)
Confidence	1.3 (0.8; 0.9-1.7)	2.9 (0.5; 2.6-3.2)	3.1 (0.4; 2.9-3.4)

^aNurses were asked to report on 32 aspects of doing safety planning with regards to 1) how knowledgeable they felt about each aspect and 2) how confident they were doing each in a role-play with a standardized patient. Nurses rated their knowledge and confidence on a Likert-type scale from with 0=not at all, 1=a little, 2=somewhat, 3=a good bit, and 4=very. Items were summed and divided by the total number of items completed to obtain a score between 0-4; higher scores indicated greater self-perception of knowledge and confidence in suicide safety planning.

^b95% CI values are based on the SEM.