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Table 3 Indicators of mental health among health mediators by on-the-job vocational training

From: On-the-job vocational training of nonprofessional ethnic health workers of a primary health care team improves their sense of coherence

 

2015

2017

p (2017 vs 2015)

Sense of coherence (mean ± SD)

 No vocational training

67.1 (± 11.9)

67.9 (13.5)

0.862

 On-the-job vocational training

62.4 (± 12.1)

72 (± 10.8)

0.033

 p (with vs without vocational training)

0.249

0.369

 

High psychological distress (%)

 No vocational training

4.6

18.8

0.016

 On-the-job vocational training

13.3

6.7

0.546

 p (with vs without vocational training)

0.341

0.315

 
  1. Bold indicates p = significance level (P value). The significance level is the threshold for below which the null hypothesis is rejected even though by assumption it were true, and something else is going on