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. 2016 Jan 15;16:17. doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0537-0

Table 4.

Healthcare Workers’ Delirium Recognition, Their Knowledge about Delirium and Strain in Caring for Delirious Patients in the Pretest and Posttest Phase (n = 57a)

Variable Pretest phase (n = 57) Posttest phase (n = 57) P-value
Delirium recognition – ability to identify delirium
Cases, n correct (%)
 Dementia 41 (71.9) 44 (77.2) 0.55b
 Hypoactive delirium 26 (45.6) 37 (64.9) 0.04b
 Hyperactive delirium 41 (71.9) 53 (93.0) 0.007b
 Dementia + hyper-/hypoactive delirium 49 (86.0) 45 (78.9) 0.31b
Total DR score, mean (SD) (range 0–4) 2.7 (1.1) 3.1 (0.9) 0.04c
Knowledge about delirium
 Total DKQ score, mean (SD) (range 0–35) 28.3 (4.5) 31.7 (2.6) <0.001c
Strain in caring for delirious patients
 Total SCDI score, mean (SD) (range 20–80) 50.9 (9.2) 51.2 (8.4) 0.46c
 Subscore hypoactive behavior, mean (SD) (range 3–12) 7.3 (1.8) 6.9 (1.7) 0.29c
 Subscore hypoalert behavior, mean (SD) (range 4–16) 8.9 (2.1) 8.8 (1.7) 0.84c
 Subscore fluctuating course/psychoneurotic behavior,
 mean (SD) (range 5–20) 11.2 (2.9) 11.3 (3.0) 0.51c
 Subscore hyperactive/hyperalert behavior, mean (SD) 23.7 (4.2) 23.9 (4.2) 0.71c
 (range 8–32)

Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, DR delirium recognition, DKQ Delirium Knowledge Questionnaire, SCDI Strain of Care for Delirium Index

aThis type of analysis included only the healthcare workers who completed minimum 1 module of the delirium e-learning tool

bMcNemar test

cPaired t-test