Table 2.
Predictors of change in competence score after training.
| Trainee characteristic or training compliance | Unadjusted for pretraining score | Adjusted for pretraining score | ||||
| Difference in expected change score (95% CI) | P value | Difference in expected change score (95% CI) | P value | |||
| Age (years) | 0.00 (−0.03 to 0.03) | .98 | −0.01 (−0.04 to 0.02) | .52 | ||
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | — | — | — | — | ||
| Male | 0.1 (−0.9 to 1.1) | .87 | 0.1 (−0.9 to 1.0) | .91 | ||
| Clinical experience (years) | 0.04 (−0.02 to 0.09) | .24 |
0.04 (−0.01 to 0.10) | .11 | ||
| Weekly time treating patients (hours) | −0.03 (−0.06 to 0.01) | .10 | −0.01 (−0.04 to 0.02) | .54 | ||
| Professional backgrounda | ||||||
| Clinical psychology | ||||||
| PsyD | — | — | — | — | ||
| PhD | 1.3 (0.2-2.4)b | .02 | 0.7 (−0.2 to 1.7)b | .14 | ||
| Masters | 0.3 (−0.8 to 1.3)b | .64 | −0.3 (−1.3 to 0.6)b | .51 | ||
| Psych nurse | 0.3 (−1.0 to 1.6)b | .62 | −0.9 (−2.1 to 0.2)b | .11 | ||
| Social work | 0.4 (−0.9 to 1.7)b | .56 | −0.9 (−2.1 to 0.3)b | .14 | ||
| Other | 0.5 (−0.3 to 1.4)b | 0.21 | −0.4 (−1.2 to 0.4)b | .30 | ||
| Treating patients using English | 0.9 (0.2-1.6) | .02 |
−0.1 (−0.8 to 0.5) | .72 | ||
| Previous attendance at workshop | −1.6 (−2.3 to −0.9) | <.001 |
0.2 (−0.5 to 0.9) | .54 | ||
| Number of patients treated during training (n=572)c,d | ||||||
| No patients | — | — | — | — | ||
| One patient | −0.1 (−1.4 to 1.3)e | .94 |
0.7 (−0.4 to 1.9)e | .21 | ||
| Two or more patients | −0.5 (−1.8 to 0.7)e | .40 |
0.9 (−0.2 to 2.0)e | .10 | ||
| One or more part cases | 0.6 (−0.7 to 1.9)e | .36 |
1.3 (0.1-2.4)e | .03 | ||
| Number of training modules completedf | 0.14 (0.07-0.20) | <.001 | 0.19 (0.13-0.25) | <.001 | ||
| Treating at least one suitable patient (n=572)c | 0.4 (−0.6 to 1.4) | .43 | 1.2 (0.4-2.1) | .004 | ||
aOverall P value for including professional background when unadjusted for pretraining score, P=.34 and when adjusted for pretraining score, P=.06.
bEffect relative to clinical psychology (PsyD).
cAnalyses conducted on complete cases only.
dOverall P value for including number of patients; P=.03 when unadjusted for pretraining score and P=.16 when adjusted.
eEffect relative to treating no patients.
fNumber of modules completed included as a linear term.