The total competence score improved from "culturally aware" (score of 68.7 at pre-) to "culturally competent" (score of 78.7 at post-).
Moreover, we observed a significant reduction of Total Competence score in patients with medication overuse (p=0.02).
A mean score can be calculated for each dimension, and for the present study we also calculated a mean total competence score based on these six dimensions.
The Total Competence scale includes 20 items where parents report the amount and quality of their children's participation in sports, hobbies, activities, jobs and chores, their friendships, how well the child gets along with others and school functioning.
The competence scales include: activities (amount and quality of participation in sports, hobbies, games as well as jobs and chores), social (number and quality of relationships with others and involvement in organizations), school (an index of competence in school) and total competence score obtained summing the activities, social and school scales (a global index of adaptive functioning).
† - competency level was ranked among occupational groups by cluster activities Among seven professional groups there were significant differences in the total competence level; the lowest to the highest competence levels were for non-qualified support group, Counsellor/Psychologist/Therapist, Occupational therapists, Medical staff, Nurse, Social worker and Psychologist (table 2).
In addition, on the standardized Child Behavior Checklist, the daughters and sons of lesbian mothers were rated significantly higher in social, school/academic, and total competence, and significantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressive, and externalizing problem behavior than their peers in the normative sample of American youth (Gartrell & Bos, 2010).
The CBCL yields scores for activities, social competence and school performance, which all add to a total summary competence score.
At T1, all students in both groups showed improvement in their total nursing competence scores, with mean scores of 117.63 (SD=19.01) and 158.52 (SD=23.19), respectively.
However, students in the CACP group exhibited higher scores than students in the EP group for the total nursing competence score and in the 6 subscales.
