Pilot study evaluating the effects of an intervention to enhance culturally appropriate hypertension education among healthcare providers in a primary care setting

Table 4 Comparison of the intervention and control groups at T0 and at T1

One-way ANOVA for the four scales
	Intervention	Control
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	df	F	p-value
Scale one T0	19.000 (4.348)	17.647 (2.914)	48	1.323	0.256
Scale one T1	20.156 (3.602)	17.765 (3.501)	48	4.980	0.030*
Scale two T0	7.625 (1.548)	7.714 (1.541)	42	0.066	0.798
Scale two T1	8.037 (1.018)	7.643 (1.277)	42	0.446	0.508
Scale three T0	11.13 (2.581)	10.833 (1.992)	37	0.196	0.661
Scale three T1	9.783 (2.696)	9.417 (2.811)	40	0.116	0.735
Scale four T0	21.371 (3.398)	18.538 (3.356)	41	6.953	0.012
Scale four T1	21.296 (3.801)	19.461 (2.846)	42	1.568	0.218

Scale one. Attitude towards culturally appropriate care (5 = not at all important, 25 = extremely important)
Scale two. Experienced barriers towards culturally appropriate healthcare in general (4 = never barriers, 16 = always barriers)
Scale three. Experienced barriers towards culturally appropriate cardiovascular care and education (4 = no barriers, 16 = big barriers)
Scale four. Self-reported actions in delivering culturally appropriate care (7 = no actions, 28 = always actions)
*After correction for variable 'scale four T0' on confounding effects for the relationship between the intervention and variable 'scale one T1', a significant (p = 0.013) effect remains for the intervention on 'scale one T1'

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