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. 2015 Feb 19;15:25. doi: 10.1186/s12888-015-0402-4

Table 3.

Participation in centre activities and extent of goal attainment

Whole sample Information (IC) Goal-setting (GS) Goal-setting with mentoring (GM) Between-group statistical comparison (Kruskal-Wallis ~ or Fisher’s Exact Test)
N = 75 N = 27 N = 24 N = 24
Mean (SD, range) Mean (SD, range) Mean (SD, range) Mean (SD, range) Kruskal-Wallis P
Centre activities undertaken 2.70 (2.50; 0–13) 2.78 (2.26; 0–10) 2.38 (2.16; 0–8) 2.91 (3.01; 0–13) .66
Sessions attended 34.00 (35.62; 0–131) 29.07 (35.04; 0–126) 36.34 (38.84; 0–131) 37.50 (37.10; 0–117) .61
Sessions by type
  Cognitive 11.54 (11.03; 1–43) 6.33 (7.66; 1–30) 14.00 (13.03; 1–43) 14.93 (11.02; 1–35) .07
  Physical 29.60 (26.97; 1–109) 22.00 (20.85; 1–78) 34.85 (29.98; 2–109) 36.72 (31.55; 1–84) .27
  Art and Craft 20.55 (22.32; 1–76) 22.00 (26.61; 1–76) 20.00 (23.35; 3–66) 19.30 (20.08; 1–60) .92
Number of goals set 2.85 (1.2; 1–5, n = 48) - 2.83 (1.09; 1–5) 2.88 (1.33; 1–5) .99
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) X 2 (FET) p
Goal attainment1
  <25% 31 (22.6) - 15 (21.7) 16 (23.5) 5.29 .26
  25% 9 (6.6) 7 (10.1) 2 (2.9)
  50% 19 (13.9) 6 (8.7) 13 (19.1)
  75% 22 (16.1) 11 (15.9) 11 (16.2)
  100% 39 (28.5) 20 (29.0) 19 (27.9)

1. The process of goal-setting included specification of what level of behavioural change would constitute 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% goal attainment. At follow-up, alongside participants’ ratings of performance and satisfaction, the extent of goal attainment was rated for each goal.

2. ~ SPSS v. 20 does not provide values for H but simply reports on whether or not the null hypothesis should be retained, with p values.