. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Radiol. 2009 Jan;6(1):38–44. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2008.08.004

Table 1.

Summary of Survey Results.

	Control	Teach	Diagram
Mean Score (Standard Deviation)	5.5 (+/−2.5) ^*	7.4 (+/−2.0)	7.3 (+/−2.2)
Minimum Score	0	1	1
Maximum Score	10	10	10
Median Score	6	8	8
70+ Mean Score (Standard Deviation)	5.3 (+/−2.4)	6.3 (+/−2.5)	7.5 (+/−2.8)

Average Time in Minutes (Standard Deviation)	5.8 (+/−2.5)	8.1 (+/−3.4) ^†	6.8 (+/−2.7)

Median Anxiety Score	2	3	2

Median Pain Score	2	2	3

LEGEND: Control (heading of column 1) refers to the control group; Teach (heading of column 2) refers to the teach-the-teacher method group; Diagram (heading of column 3) refers to the diagram method group; Mean Score refers to the mean survey score obtained from questions 1 through 6 from the survey; 70+ Mean Score refers to the mean survey score of patients ≥70 years of age obtained from questions 1 through 6 from the survey; Average Time refers to the mean time (in minutes) required by the physician to obtain informed consent and give post-procedure instructions;

means this result is statistically significant from the Teach and Diagram Groups results in this row;

^†

means this result is statistically significant from the Control Group result in this row.