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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2014 May;25(2):877–889. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2014.0083

Table 3.

Medical Student Responses to Seven Point Likert-Scale Items Before and After Introductory Pre-Clinical Service-Learning Elective Class With the Student-Run Free Clinic Project (SRFCP) Average Scores for Each Category: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Self-Efficacy With the Underserved 2001–2010*

Pre-test Mean(SD),
Median [IQR]
Post-test Mean(SD),
Median [IQR]
Matched survey pairs N = 433
   Knowledge 3.58(1.23), 3.5[2.0] 4.79(0.92), 4.75[1.0]
   Skills 2.26(1.30), 2.0[2.0] 4.64(1.03), 5.0[1.5]
   Attitudes 5.78(1.05), 6.0[2.0] 6.11(0.94), 6.0[2.0]
   Self-efficacy 4.85(1.28), 5.0[2.0] 5.48(0.91), 5.6[1.2]
Intent-to-treat N = 914
   Knowledge 3.79(1.25), 3.75[2.0] 4.36(1.18), 4.5[1.75]
   Skills 2.73(1.55), 2.5[3.0] 3.86(1.56), 4.0[3.0]
   Attitudes 5.89(1.02), 6.0[2.0] 6.04(0.96), 6.0[2.0]
   Self-efficacy 5.02(1.24), 5.2[1.8] 5.31(1.07), 5.4[1]
*

p values all ≤.001 using Wilcoxon signed rank test.

IQR = Interquartile Range