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. 2018 Jun 8;20(6):e10386. doi: 10.2196/10386

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.