. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2016 Feb 15;99(7):1162–1169. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2016.02.008

Table 3.

Number of ambivalence statements expressed by adolescents and caregivers.

	Adolescent		Caregiver		Mean difference (95% confidence interval)^a
	M (SD)	Median (IQR)	M (SD)	Median (IQR)	Mean difference (95% confidence interval)^a
Overall	2.81 (4.62)	1.00 (0.00, 3.50)	4.57 (8.06)	1.00 (0.00, 6.50)	−1.76 (−4.19, 0.67)
Target behavior
Nutrition	0.92 (2.14)	1.00 (0.00, 1.00)	1.81 (2.89)	0.00 (0.00, 3.00)	−0.89 (−1.80, 0.02)
Activity	1.24 (2.62)	0.00 (0.00, 1.00)	1.92 (4.83)	0.00 (0.00, 1.50)	−0.68 (−2.21, 0.85)
Weight	0.65 (1.36)	0.00 (0.00, 1.00)	0.84 (2.20)	0.00 (0.00, 0.50)	−0.19 (−0.93, 0.55)
Valences
AMB⁺ (Positive)	0.95 (1.84)	0.00 (0.00, 1.00)	0.86 (1.75)	0.00 (0.00, 1.50)	0.08 (−0.56, 0.73)
AMB°(Neutral)	0.97 (1.71)	0.00 (0.00, 1.00)	1.00 (1.63)	0.00 (0.00, 1.00)	−0.03 (−0.58, 0.53)
AMB⁻(Negative)	0.89 (1.91)	0.00 (0.00, 1.00)	2.70 (6.92)	0.00 (0.00, 2.00)	−1.81 (34.02, 0.40)

Sensitivity analysis with Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test yielded similar test results.