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Table 2 Modified Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Children Scale (M-DASC) scores before and after training intervention (n = 37)

From: Training on domestic violence and child safeguarding in general practice: a mixed method evaluation of a pilot intervention

Scale/ subscale score

T1

T2

T3

P

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Total

84.4

10.6

96.1

7.1

95.2

8.7

<0.001

Knowledge

50.5

7.0

59.1

5.0

58.2

5.4

<0.001

Confidence/self-efficacy

42.8

6.3

49.5

4.5

49.1

5.8

<0.001

Beliefs/attitudes

24.5

1.8

24.8

1.9

24.7

2.0

0.61

  1. Note: T1 – pre-training. T2 – immediately post-training. T3 – 3-month follow up. SD standard deviation, P p-value for the repeated-measures ANOVA test