The impact of a nursing spiritual care module on nursing competence: an experimental design

BMC Palliative Care

Table 4 Summary of two-way repeated measure ANOVA for spiritual care competence score (within and between subject effects)

Source of variance	Comparison of SCCS	Mean score	95%CI	P-value
Within Time (Pre-Post test)	Intervention group	5.569*	2.818–8.320	0.001^a
Within Time (Pre-Post test)	Control group	1.117*	-1.078-3.312	0.313^a
Between group	Intervention group	103.112	101.442-104.782	0.037^b
Between group	Control group	100.625	98.983-102.267	0.037^b
Time*group Interaction (SCCS Pretest)	Intervention group	100.328	98.087-102.568	0.870^c
Time*group Interaction (SCCS Pretest)	Control group	100.067	97.864–102.270	0.870^c
Time*group Interaction (SCCS Posttest)	Intervention group	105.897	103.994-107.799	0.001^c
Time*group Interaction (SCCS Posttest)	Control group	101.183	99.313-103.054	0.001^c

*MD = mean difference
^a) Repeated measures ANOVA within-group analysis was applied followed by pairwise comparison with 95% confidence interval adjustment by Bonferroni correction. MD = mean difference
^b) Repeated measures ANOVA between-group analyses were applied; F-stat (df) = 4.423 (1); Level of significance was set at 0.05 (two-tailed)
^c) Repeated measures ANOVA between group analysis with regard to time was applied followed by pairwise comparison with 95% confidence interval adjustment by Bonferroni correction. Assumption of normality, homogeneity of variances and compound symmetry were checked and were fulfilled

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