Table 4.

Effect of the communication skills training, the empathy scores and the demographic variables

Source	Type III SS	df	MS	F	Sig.
Intercept	35 145.96	1	35 145.96	321.61	0.000
Group*gender	738.51	2	369.25	3.38	0.037
Group*age	431.25	2	215.63	1.97	0.142
Group*marital status	72.00	2	36.00	0.33	0.720
Group*specialisation	241.87	2	120.94	1.11	0.333
Group*religion	219.32	2	109.66	1.00	0.369
Group*ethnicity	440.74	2	220.37	2.02	0.137
Group*AWC	69.25	2	34.63	0.32	0.729
Error	17 266.55	158	109.28

Significance level p<0.01.

Measurement is by time point.

Transformed variable is by average.

AWC, academic writing and communication; df, degrees of freedom; F, statistic; MS, mean square; Sig., significance level; SS, sum of squares.