. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Nov 20;85(2):194–200. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.10.005

Table 1.

Variation across six standardized patients (SP) on performance of script items^***.

		Lowest mean SP score ± SD	Highest mean SP score ± SD	F-statistic	p-Value	Degrees of freedom	Effect size (Cohen’s f)^a
Percentage of script items mentioned^a	Clinical	57 ± 12%	73 ± 12%	1.34	0.2519	5	0.12
	Psychosocial	44 ± 5%	54 ± 5%	1.61	0.1591	5	0.12
Accuracy^b	Clinical	85 ± 1%	95 ± 1%	3.55	0.0045	5	0.28
	Psychosocial	86 ± 3%	96 ± 3%	5.84	0.0001	5	0.37

(Number of script items mentioned/total possible script items) × 100%. Prenatal case totals: 25 clinical items, 28 psychosocial items. Cancer case totals: 22 clinical items, 33 psychosocial items.

{Total number of items that were correctly stated/(genetic counselor prompts for information plus standardized patient-initiated information)} × 100%.

^***

Analyses based on ANOVA with case and presence of spouse as covariates with 7 degrees of freedom.