Table 3.
Comfort Scores
| Control group scores | Intervention group scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Pretest | Posttest | p value* | Pretest | Posttest | p value* |
| “How comfortable do you feel assessing a patient’s pain level?,” mean (SD) | 3.59 (0.73)† | 3.84 (0.58) | <.01 | 3.28 (0.69)† | 3.80 (0.66) | <.01 |
| “How comfortable do you feel dosing morphine or severe pain?,” mean (SD) | 3.23 (0.95) | 3.71 (0.80) | <.01 | 3.06 (0.86) | 3.86 (0.69) | <.01 |
| “How comfortable do you feel treating nausea at the end-of-life?,” mean (SD) | 3.15 (0.85) | 3.36 (0.76) | .02 | 3.04 (0.93) | 3.61 (0.75) | <.01 |
| “How comfortable do you feel asking a patient about code status?,” mean (SD) | 3.86 (0.93) | 4.26 (0.67) | <.01 | 3.69 (1.06) | 4.33 (0.74) | <.01 |
| “How comfortable do you feel treating agitation at the end-of-life?,” mean (SD) | 2.82 (0.87) | 3.33 (0.74) | <.01 | 2.83 (0.86) | 3.45 (0.80) | <.01 |
| Overall improvement in total comfort scores | t = 5.90 | p < .01‡ | t = 7.52 | p < .01‡ | ||
Scores range from 1 (“very uncomfortable”) to 5 (“very comfortable”).
*p value for the comparison between pre and post intervention comfort scores.
†p < 0.05 for the difference between control and intervention groups.
‡p value for the comparison between total pre and total post comfort scores.