Table 4.
Communication skills exercise: ANOVA analysis
| Participant evaluations | Participants (n) | Overall, how would you rate today’s rounds?
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How useful were the volunteer patients to your learning?
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Standard deviation | Mean | Standard deviation | ||
| 2014 | 32 | 1.47 | 0.621 | 1.22 | 0.608 |
| 2015 | 30 | 1.03 | 0.183 | 1.00 | 0.000 |
| 2016 | 30 | 1.27 | 0.521 | 1.20 | 0.407 |
| ANOVA | p=0.002 | p=0.112 | |||
| Bonferroni correction* | 2014>2015, p=0.001 | ||||
Notes: Participants evaluated the exercise on a Likert scale with 1 being excellent, 2 being very good, 3 being good, 4 being fair, and 5 being poor.
*
Nonsignificant ANOVA does not need a Bonferroni correction.