Motivational interviewing competencies among UK family nurse partnership nurses: a process evaluation component of the building blocks trial

Table 6 Descriptive statistics of clinical competency

Derived Variable	Pregnancy phase (N = 47)			Infancy phase (N = 45)
Derived Variable	Median	IQR	Range	Median	IQR	Range
Global Clinician Rating	4.0	3.6 to 4.2	2.6 to 4.8	3.8	3.4 to 4.1	2.6 to 5.0
Reflections: Questions ratio^a	0.5	0.3 to 0.8	0.1 to 1.5	0.7	0.5 to 1.2	0.4 to 2.0
% Open Questions	25.0	16.1 to 34.5	5.8 to 66.7	18.8	11.8 to 32.0	0.0 to 66.7
% Complex Reflections	26.7	18.2 to 40.0	0.0 to 66.7	18.8	13.3 to 33.3	0.0 to 46.7
% MI-Adherent^b	100.0	85.7 to 100.0	0.0 to 100.0	100.0	80.0 to 100.0	16.7 to 100.0
MI spirit	3.7	3.3 to 4.0	2.0 to 5.0	3.3	3.0 to 4.0	1.7 to 5.0

^aa value <1 indicates a higher number of total questions than total reflections, value >1 indicates a higher number of total reflections than total questions. ^bN = 46 for % MIA as one home-visit scored MIA = 0 and MINA = 0 and N = 38 for % MIA in infancy phase as seven visits scored 0 on both MIA and MINA

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