Table 4.

Secondary outcomes: rated on a 1 to 10 scale.

Informant group	Patients informed by assistant nurses (n = 39)			Patients informed by doctors (n = 33)		Post	p-value	Effect size (r)
	Mean	Standard deviation (SD)	Median [IQR]	Mean	Standard deviation (SD)	Median [IQR]
Feeling of having understood the information*	9.23	1.25	10 [9–10]	9.45	1.30	10 [10–10]	p = 0.202	−0.15
Stress**	1.38	1.14	1 [1–1]	1.18	0.53	1 [1–1]	p = 0.638	−0.06
Satisfaction***	9.69	0.86	10 [10–10]	9.45	1.43	10 [10–10]	p = 0.689	−0.05

Significance calculated using Mann–Whitney U test.

^*U = 553.

^**U = 618.5.

^***U = 620.5.