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. 2012 Feb 24;12:18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-18

Table 3.

Knowledge scores of the professional and patient group at test and retest (by domain)

Test Retest Test-retest reliability [A] versus [B] Discriminant validity
[A] versus [E]
Patients (n = 77)
[A]
Patients
(n = 61)#
[B]
Wilcoxon Signed Rank test
[C]
Spearman's rho
Correlation
Coefficient**
[D]
Professionals (n = 40)
[E]
Mann Whitney U test
[F]

Domain Mean ± SD Mean ± SD p-value Mean ± SD p-value

Diabetes 85.97 ± 19.21 91.15 ± 15.29 0.318 0.391 95.50 ± 9.59 0.002*

Hypertension 64.41 ± 23.76 63.61 ± 20.50 0.018* 0.490 92.50 ± 9.81 < 0.001*

Hyperlipidaemia 56.62 ± 23.26 85.97 ± 19.21 0.018* 0.460 93.50 ± 11.45 < 0.001*

Medication 79.22 ± 20.14 79.51 ± 17.08 0.359 0.552 97.19 ± 5.29 < 0.001*

General issues 82.60 ± 20.09 81.97 ± 19.90 0.226 0.559 88.50 ± 17.48 0.100

Total knowledge score 74.35 ± 14.88 78.04 ± 12.09 0.215 0.617 93.84 ± 6.47 < 0.001*

#16 patients were excluded from the test-retest as they did not come for their follow-up visit

*Statistically significant at p < 0.05

**All correlations were statistically significant at p < 0.01