Assessing nursing staff’s competences in mobility support in nursing-home care: development and psychometric testing of the Kinaesthetics Competence (KC) observation instrument

Table 7 Discriminating power of the KC observation instrument

	Mean (SD)
Subscale (1–4) and total (4–16) score	Total sample (n = 40)	Nursing staff without or with basic kinaesthetics training (n = 15)	Nursing staff with advanced kinaesthetics training (n = 25)	W	Z	P
Interaction	2.68 (0.673)	2.49 (0.469)	2.79 (0.757)	262	−1.298	0.1
Movement support of the person	2.57 (0.651)	2.25 (0.437)	2.75 (0.693)	262.5	−2.287	0.011^a
Nurses’ movement	2.85 (0.622)	2.53 (0.451)	3.04 (0.641)	224	−2.448	0.007^a
Adjustment of environment	2.68 (0.694)	2.33 (0.488)	2.88 (0.726)	230	−2.376	0.012^a
Total score	10.77 (2.439)	9.61 (1.455)	11.46 (2.664)	223	−2.362	0.009^a

SD standard deviation, W value Wilcoxon rank-sum test; ^asignificant on a one-tailed test level of 5%

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