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Table 4 Changes in healthcare professionals’ social cognitions over time

From: ‘Changing Minds’: determining the effectiveness and key ingredients of an educational intervention to enhance healthcare professionals’ intentions to prescribe physical activity to patients with physical disabilities

 

Descriptive statistics

Repeated-measures ANOVA

Paired samples t-tests

Time

Cohen’s d

Construct

Pre

Post

1-month

6-month

F-value

Pre-post

Pre-1mo

Pre-6mo

Post-1mo

Post-6mo

1mo-6mo

Attitudes

5.84 ± 0.86

6.32 ± 0.07

5.41 ± 0.18

5.58 ± 0.17

33.7***

0.76**

-0.54

-0.25

-0.95**

-0.80**

0.15

Subjective norms

4.70 ± 0.19

5.30 ± 0.16

5.02 ± 0.24

4.53 ± 0.22

7.57**

0.35**

0.15

-0.09

-0.14

-0.44**

-0.33

PBC

4.61 ± 0.14

5.77 ± 0.09

5.45 ± 0.28

4.74 ± 0.21

34.98***

1.15**

0.61*

0.08

-0.28

-0.90**

-0.47

Intentions

4.35 ± 0.13

5.31 ± 0.14

4.51 ± 0.27

3.95 ± 0.25

25.79***

1.00**

0.11

-0.22

-0.53**

-0.80**

-0.30

  1. Note. PBC: Perceived behavioural control. Descriptive statistics (M ± SE) and repeated-measures ANOVA F-values and p-values are pooled across the 10 multiple imputation data sets.
  2. *indicates test value reached statistical significance at p ≤ 0.05.
  3. **indicates test value reached statistical significance at p ≤ 0.0083 (Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons used for t-tests).
  4. ***indicates test value reached statistical significance at p. < 001.