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Table 2 Staff levels of confidence in knowing how to respond to a potentially depressed care recipient

From: More age-care staff report helping care recipients following a brief depression awareness raising intervention

 

N (BT)

BT

N (AT)

AT

N (FU)

FU

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Median (Interquartile range)

Median (Interquartile range)

Median (Interquartile range)

Confidence in knowing how to assist a depressed care recipient

101

3.5 (1.1)

98

4.1 (0.9)**

48

3.7 (0.9)*

3 (1)

4 (1)

4 (1)

Number of appropriate responses identified

95

2.9 (1.7)

79

2.9 (1.8)

51

2.7 (1.9)

3 (3)

2 (3)

2 (2)

  1. Knowledge of appropriate responses before training (BT), after training (AT) and six month follow up (FU).
  2. N.B. analyses compared BT vs AT and BT vs FU. Ns differ between variables due to missing data * P < 0.05**P < 0.001.
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