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. 2008 Apr 30;23(8):1222–1227. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-0582-4

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.