Effect of end-of-life nursing education on the knowledge and performance of nurses in the intensive care unit: a quasi-experimental study

Table 3 Comparison of nurse’s performance before and after education based on the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium

Module		Before the intervention	After the intervention	P^b	P^a
Group		Before the intervention	After the intervention	P^b	P^a
Preparations for providing palliative care	Control	26.25 ± 6.29	26.13 ± 5.57	0.557	< 0.001
	Intervention	23.77 ± 5.15	38.43 ± 4.47	< 0.001
	P^c	0.056	< 0.001	⁻
Attitudes toward palliative care	Control	23.65 ± 3.71	24.02 ± 3.56	0.803	0.943
	Intervention	23.84 ± 2.76	23.80 ± 4.43	0.806
	P^c	0.648	0.965	⁻
Self-assessment of ability to communicate with patients	Control	14.82 ± 4.57	15.05 ± 3.59	0.657	< 0.001
	Intervention	14.32 ± 3.42	23.28 ± 2.64	< 0.001
	P^c	0.581	< 0.001	⁻
Self-assessment of knowledge and skills in palliative care	Control	12.00 ± 3.26	11.54 ± 3.18	0.113	< 0.001
	Intervention	10.77 ± 2.77	14.63 ± 2.35	< 0.001
	P^c	0.074	< 0.001	⁻
Total performance of nurses	Control	76.77 ± 12.78	76.75 ± 10.44	0.478	< 0.001
	Intervention	72.15 ± 8.22	100.14 ± 10.00	< 0.001
	P^c	0.062	< 0.001	⁻

^aBased on analysis of covariance in the presence of confounding variables (nurses’ knowledge of pre-intervention nursing care and age) has been reported
^bPaired sample t- test
^cIndependent t-test

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