To establish whether individual performance assessment made any difference to midwives' self-reported training needs, comparisons of the above groups were made for their training needs scores (ratings A minus B), using a series of unrelated t-tests.
To ascertain the training needs for the whole sample, the performance ratings were deducted from the importance ratings [ 11].
As all tasks were also given high importance ratings (see above), this means that it is not possible to prioritize the training needs either by salience of task or by significance of the importance/performance gap.
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The 174 midwives who had a formal job description were compared with the 158 who did not, on importance ratings and training needs.
However, comparison of these two groups on current performance ratings (rating B) and training needs identified only four significant differences in each set of comparisons, thus suggesting a limited impact of the mandatory IPA.
