GP awareness, practice, knowledge and confidence: evaluation of the first nation-wide dementia-focused continuing medical education program in Australia

Table 3 Changes in mean scores for GPs who submitted surveys at each of three time-points

Questions	Pre-CME^a program	Post-program	Follow-up	Difference between Pre-CME program and Follow-up	Test statistic	95% Confidence Interval	p^c (two-sided)
	Mean (SD)^b	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Awareness^d	0.5 (0.6)	1.5 (0.4)	1.2 (0.4)	0.8 (0.7)	t₉₄ = 10.00	0.61, 0.92	< 0.0005
Practice^e	2.2 (0.6)	3.3 (0.5)	2.8 (0.5)	0.6 (0.6)	t₉₁ = 9.00	0.44, 0.70	< 0.0005
Knowledge^f	5.4 (1.8)	7.3 (7.3)	7.1 (1.1)	1.7 (1.6)	t₉₃ = 9.79	1.32, 2.00	< 0.0005
Confidence^f	5.4 (1.9)	7.4 (1.2)	7.4 (1.3)	2.0 (1.7)	t₉₃ = 10.94	1.60, 2.31	< 0.0005

^aCME Continuing Medical Education
^bSD = Standard deviation
^cp significance level
^dValue index for awareness-related items: Disagree strongly = − 2, Disagree = − 1, Agree = 1, Agree strongly = 2
^eValue for index for practice-related items: Never = 0, Rarely = 1, Half the time = 2, Usually = 3, Always = 4
^fLikert scale: 0–10

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