Table 3.
Critical Care Training Short Courses: participants’ evaluation and test performance
| Pilot phase | Implementation phase | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinidad (April 2011) | Indonesia (May 2012) | Vietnam (May 2013) | Central Asia (August‐October 2013) | |
| Number of participants | 29 | 38 | 86 | 97 |
| Range of mean ratings (introduction and 14 learning units)a | 4.5‐4.9 | 3.9‐4.3 | 4.5‐4.6 | 4.6‐4.8 |
| Pre‐test score, mean (SD), n | 14.4 (4.0), n = 29 | 14.1 (3.0), n = 36 | 16.2 (3.9), n = 76 | 10.6 (3.9), n = 76 |
| Post‐test score, mean (SD), n | 20.0 (2.3), n = 29 | 19.3 (3.5), n = 37 | 21.2 (1.8), n = 45 | 14.4 (3.8), n = 87 |
| P valueb | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
a
For the satisfaction ratings, 1 denoted very poor and 5 denoted very good.
b
P values are from unpaired t tests of post‐test vs pre‐test scores (possible range of scores, 0‐25).