Table 3.

ADCQ content domains and professional group (n = 390)

		Professionals
		GPs(n = 212)	Community nurses(n = 178)
Content Domain	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	F value	p-value	ES
ADCQ (13 items)	7.8(2.17)	7.9(2.28)	7.6(2.02)	1.560	0.212	0.069
Orientation of time, place and situation (3 items)	2.1(0.75)	2.1(0.75)	2.1(0.76)	0.027	0.869	0.000
Correction of behavior (3 items)	1.5(0.84)	1.6(0.89)	1.5(0.78)	0.685	0.408	0.060
Emphasis on the past or the present (3 items)	1.7(0.95)	1.8(0.98)	1.6(0.91)	3.914	0.049	0.105
Aim of the nurses’ communication (3 items)	2.1(0.79)	2.2(0.81)	2.1(0.76)	0.480	0.489	0.064
Whether confusion had any meaning for the patient (1 item)	0.4(0.48)	0.5(0.03)	0.5(0.04)	0.351	0.554	0.000

ADCQ Approach to Advanced Dementia Care Questionnaire, SD standard deviation

p-value was based on Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)

ES effect size

Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons was applied. With 6 group comparisons conducted, a corrected p-value of 0.0083 was required