. 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 2.

Variation in standardized patients’ (SP) general communication, affective demeanor, and reality ratings^***.

		Lowest mean SP score ± SD	Highest mean SP score ± SD	F-statistic	p-Value	Effect size (Cohen’s f)
SP general communication (mean use of each category as a percentage of total talk)	Clinical information-giving	39% ± 4%	50% ± 4%	2.03	0.0789	0.18
	Psychosocial information-giving	22% ± 2%	28% ± 1%	1.37	0.2543	0.11
	Question-asking	2% ± 0.4%	5% ± 0.4%	5.64	0.0001	0.40
	Social Talk	6% ± 2%	14% ± 2%	11.74	<0.0001	0.57
	Emotional talk and partnership building	11% ± 1%	15% ± 1%	2.96	0.0144	0.25
	Facilitative talk	0.8% ± 0.2%	4% ± 0.2%	20.63	<0.0001	0.83
Verbal activity level (SP talk/GC talk)		0.21 ± 0.02	0.26 ± 0.02	0.95	0.4495	0.08
SP affective demeanor	Anxiety^a	1.4 ± 0.2	2.4 ± 0.2	11.40	<0.0001	0.56
	Warmth^b	2.8 ± 0.1	3.4 ± 0.1	3.61	0.0043	0.29
Reality rating^c		2.8 ± 0.3	3.3 ± 0.3	1.22	0.3025	0.08

Rating on a 6 point scale, with higher values indicating higher levels of anxiety.

Rating on a 6 point scale, with higher values indicating higher levels of warmth.

Rating on a 4 point scale, with ‘4’ indicating “completely real”.

^***

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