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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Crisis. 2012 Jan 1;33(1):30–38. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000099

Table 3.

Changes in pre- and postscores and effect sizes for main outcome measures

Measure Mean N SD SEM Pre/post difference* Effect size
Knowledge (% correct)
 Pre 47% 287 0.17 0.01 23% 1.37***
 Post 70% 287 0.18 0.01
Confidence
 Pre 4.92 284 1.47 0.09 1.39 0.94***
 Post 6.31 284 1.06 0.06
Documentation includes summary of risk along a continuum (i. e., from “low” to “high”)
 Pre 36% 248 0.47 0.03 28% 0.61**
 Post 64% 248 0.47 0.03
Documentation includes a time based summary of risk (i. e., “acute,” “chronic”)
 Pre 8% 248 0.26 0.02 41% 1.57***
 Post 49% 248 0.49 0.03
Overall quality of the documentation
 Pre 3.10 248 1.17 0.07 1.10 0.94***
 Post 4.20 248 1.49 0.09

Note.

*

A11 effects are statistically significant (p < .001).

**

Medium effect size,

***

Large effect size, based on Cohen's d. SEM = standard error mean.