Table 1.
Pre-Measurement Characteristics of Participants
| No. (%) of respondents* |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Intervention group (n=234)* |
Control group (n=199)* |
p-value† |
| Sex | 0.21 | ||
| Male | 116 (49.6) | 87 (43.7) | |
| Female | 118 (50.4) | 113 (56.3) | |
| Employment setting | 0.64 | ||
| Primary care | 186 (79.5) | 154 (77.4) | |
| Nursing home | 48 (20.5) | 45 (22.6) | |
| Age, y | <0.001 | ||
| <30 | 35 (15.0) | 47 (23.6) | |
| 30–50 | 98 (41.9) | 107 (53.8) | |
| ≥50 | 101 (43.1) | 46 (22.6) | |
| Working week, h/wk | 0.008 | ||
| <25 | 48 (20.5) | 66 (33.2) | |
| 25–33 | 72 (30.8) | 45 (22.6) | |
| ≥33 | 114 (48.7) | 88 (44.2) | |
| Work experience, y | 0.002 | ||
| 0–10 | 42 (17.9) | 64 (32.2) | |
| 11–20 | 40 (17.1) | 38 (19.1) | |
| 21–30 | 88 (37.6) | 60 (30.1) | |
| ≥30 | 64 (27.3) | 37 (18.6) | |
| Attitudes and behaviours (intervention group, n=252; control n=235) | |||
| Positive attitude toward outcome measures | 0.79 | ||
| Agree | 221 (87.7) | 202 (86.0) | |
| Neutral | 24 (9.5) | 24 (10.2) | |
| Disagree | 7 (2.8) | 9 (3.8) | |
| Difficulty in changing behaviour | 0.036 | ||
| Agree | 134 (53.2) | 98 (41.7) | |
| Neutral | 51 (20.2) | 55 (23.4) | |
| Disagree | 67 (26.6) | 82 (34.9) | |
| Use of measurement instruments, % of clients | |||
| Consistently use | 26 | 41 | <0.001 |
| Occasionally use | 25 | 25 | 0.95 |
| Consistently do not use | 48 | 34 | <0.001 |
| Difficulty in choosing among the many available measurement instruments‡ | 3.5 | 3.1 | <0.001 |
*
Unless otherwise indicated.
†
p-values for testing differences between intervention and control groups. For categorical variables, Fisher's exact test was used; for the last four variables, independent-samples t-test was used.
‡
Mean score on a 5-point Likert-type scale (1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree).