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Table 3 Confidence levels on EBHC from “Before” to “After” evaluations

From: Development, implementation and evaluation of an online course on evidence-based healthcare for consumers

In terms of your knowledge on evidence-based healthcare, what is your confidence?a,b

“After” confidence of course completers

Totalc

Not so confident

Moderately confident

Very confident

“Before” confidence of course completers

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

Not so confident

81

(5.7)

1134

(80.5)

194

(13.8)

1409

(100)

Moderately confident

42

(1.4)

2051

(67.2)

961

(31.5)

3054

(100)

Very confident

2

(0.6)

125

(35.1)

229

(64.3)

356

(100)

Total

125

(2.6)

3310

(68.7)

1384

(28.7)

4819d

(100)

  1. a Data presented as paired observations
  2. b This question did not offer a “Prefer not to respond” answer choice
  3. c Changes from “Before” to “After” were found to be significant (p < 0.0001)
  4. d Although the online hosting platform prompted participants to answer all evaluation questions before proceeding, we encountered 80 missing responses