Effects of geriatric clinical skills training on the attitudes of medical students

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Attitude and knowledge of medical students before and after the geriatric Clinical Skills Training (CST)

	Students evaluated before geriatric CST^a(N = 71)	Students evaluated after geriatric CST^a(N = 76)	Difference (95% CI)^b	P-Value^c
*Attitude*
UCLA-GAS
- Overall scale	49 (44 – 53)	51 (47 – 54)	2 (0 – 4)	0.062
- Compassion subscale	14 (13 – 15)	14 (12 – 16)	0 (-1 – 1)	0.963
- Resource distribution subscale	16 (14 – 17)	17 (15 – 18)	1 (0 – 2)	0.005
- Medical care subscale	11 (10 – 14)	12 (10 – 13)	0 (0 – 1)	0.390
- Social value subscale	7 (6 – 9)	8 (7 – 9)	0 (0 – 1)	0.405
Students with negative attitude	12 (16.9%)	6 (7.9%)	NA	0.096
*Knowledge*
Knowledge score	1 (-1 – 1)	1 (1 – 3)	2 (0 – 2)	<0.001
Students with little knowledge	32 (45.1%)	15 (19.7%)	NA	0.001
Estimated time needed to perform a MMSE and a clock drawing test in minutes	30 (20 – 30)	20 (15 – 30)	-5 (-10 – 0)	<0.001

Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, CST clinical skills training, MMSE Mini Mental State Examination, UCLA-GAS University of California at Los Angeles Geriatrics Attitudes Scale.
^aValues are medians with interquartile ranges or numbers with percentages.
^bDifference with 95% confidence interval (CI) based on Hodges-Lehmann estimate [27].
^cP-Value from two-sided Wilcoxon ranksum test.
NA = not available.

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