Table 3.
Knowledge, personal beliefs/attitudes, and practice attitudes.
| Criteria | Composite scores of correct answers | P valuea | |||||
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Baseline | Posttest 1 | Posttest 2 | Posttest 3 |
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General skin cancer knowledge | 0.57 | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.71 | <.001 | |
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ABCDEb knowledge | 0.64 | 0.68 | 0.68 | 0.83 | .002 | |
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Case-based image assessment | 0.74 | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.72 | .04 | |
| Personal beliefs/attitudes | |||||||
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Prevention beliefs | 3.79 | 3.92 | 3.63 | 3.59 | <.001 | |
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Prevention behavior: SSEc | 2.97 | 3.23 | 3.42 | 3.53 | <.001 | |
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Prevention behaviors: clinical skin examination | 1.99 | 2.08 | 2.27 | 2.33 | <.001 | |
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Frequency of sun protection behavior | 3.73 | 3.82 | 3.84 | 3.84 | .03 | |
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General self-efficacy | 34.54 | 34.08 | 33.95 | 34.45 | .19 | |
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Perceived potential risk of skin cancer (on the scale of 1 to 100) | 44.54 | 43.29 | 39.46 | 40.91 | .10 | |
| Practice attitudes | |||||||
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Appropriateness of client interactions | 3.97 | 4.33 | 4.22 | 4.33 | <.001 | |
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Confidence in client interactions | 4.11 | 4.48 | 4.44 | 4.46 | <.001 | |
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Confidence in protecting one’s own skin | 3.43 | 3.52 | 3.53 | 3.55 | .18 | |
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Confidence in assessing one’s own skin | 3.34 | 3.5 | 3.48 | 3.51 | .08 | |
aStatistical significance (P<.05) for repeated measures analysis of variance.
bABCDE: asymmetry, border, color, diameter, evolving.
cSSE: skin self-examination.