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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2012 Sep 19;17(3):700–707. doi: 10.1017/S1368980012004089

Table 3. The relationship between overall confidencea and competence in using ‘open discovery’ questions in response to four statements post-training.

Competence in using ‘open discovery’ questions p-value
Overall
Confidence
None 1-2 times 3-4 times Total 0.002 b
Low 1 0 0 1
Mid 15 21 30 66
High 11 18 49 78
Total 27 39 79 145
a

Overall confidence scores were derived for each participant by calculating the mean of their healthy eating and physical activity confidence scores.

b

Spearman test for trend across increasing competence and overall confidence levels (r=0.19)