Table 4.
Associations Between Improvements in Knowledge and Beliefs About Community Resources with Resource Self-Efficacy and Resource Use in the Intervention Group*
| Resource self-efficacy† | P value | Resource use | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improvement in knowledge and beliefs after intervention | No confidence n = 18 |
Confidence n = 168 |
No resource use n = 167 |
Resource use n = 21 |
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| % | % | % | % | P value | ||
| Neither knowledge nor beliefs | 61.1 | 18.5 | < 0.001 | 24.6 | 9.5 | 0.12 |
| Knowledge alone‡ | 33.3 | 44.6 | 0.36 | 43.7 | 42.9 | 0.94 |
| 2 or more resource types§ | 5.6 | 25.6 | 0.06 | 23.4 | 23.8 | 0.96 |
| Beliefs alone | 5.6 | 7.1 | 0.80 | 7.2 | 4.8 | 0.68 |
| Both knowledge‡ and beliefs | 0 | 29.8 | 0.007 | 24.6 | 42.9 | 0.07 |
| 2 or more resource types§ | 0 | 22.0 | 0.03 | 17.4 | 38.1 | 0.02 |
*Included only intervention group participants with follow-up data for both knowledge and belief items; follow-up time periods are pooled
†Self-efficacy scores were analyzed as a dichotomous variable: “not at all confident” and “not very confident” responses were combined, and “somewhat confident” and “completely confident” were combined
‡Indicates the acquisition of knowledge for 1 or more resource types
§Indicates the acquisition of knowledge for 2 or more resource types