Development, acceptability and uptake of an on-line communication skills education program targeting challenging conversations for oncology health professionals related to identifying and responding to anxiety and depression

Table 3 Pilot-testing of the on-line training: participant confidence*

	Pre-training Mean (SD)	Post-training Mean (SD)
Identifying anxiety symptoms	2.92 (.90)	3.27 (1.00)**
Identifying depression symptoms	2.83 (.83)	3.09 (.83)
Discussing anxiety and depression screening with patients	2.75 (1.05)	2.91 (1.13)
Making a referral	3.83 (1.09)	3.91 (.94)
Negotiating with a patient who is reluctant to take up a referral	2.83 (1.03)	2.81 (.75)
TOTAL confidence score	14.72 (4.38)	16.00 (3.74)

*self-assessed rating from 0 – not at all confident to 5 very confident **p < .05

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