Development and validation of REAGERA-P, a new questionnaire to evaluate health care provider preparedness to identify and manage elder abuse

Table 6 Responsiveness of the self-efficacy scale and items about cause for concern

	Before intervention		After intervention		p
Self-efficacy	Mean	95 % BCa CI	Mean	95 % BCa CI
Overall scale (range 0–80)	37.3	34.2–40.2	54.0	51.7–56.2	< 0.01
Asking questions (range 0–30)	15.0	13.6–16.2	21.5	20.6–22.3	< 0.01
Managing the response (range 0–50)	22.4	20.0-24.7	32.5	30.9–34.2	< 0.01
Cause for concern	n	%	n	%	p	Negative ranks (n)	Positive ranks (n)	Ties
Negative reaction from patient					1.00	5	5	21
Not at all worried	15	48.4	10	32.3
Little worried	11	35.5	21	67.7
Rather worried	5	16.1	1	2.9
Very worried	0	-	0	-
Negative effect on relationship					0.97	6	8	17
Not at all worried	15	48.4	10	32.3
Little worried	12	38.7	20	64.5
Rather worried	2	6.5	1	3.2
Very worried	2	6.5	0	-
Not be able to offer a good follow up					0.54	13	7	11
Not at all worried	6	19.4	1	3.2
Little worried	8	25.8	17	54.8
Rather worried	12	38.7	13	41.9
Very worried	5	16.1	0	-

Note: BCa CI Bias corrected accelerated confidence intervals (BCa CI) for 1000 samples. P-value for self-efficacy = T-test for dependent samples. P-value for cause for concern = Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test for two related samples

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