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Table 3 Assessment score means and post hoc analysis

From: Assessment of laypersons’ paediatric basic life support and foreign body airway obstruction management skills: a validity study

 

Untrained laypersons, mean (95% CI)

Trained laypersons, mean (95% CI)

Lifeguards, mean (95% CI)

One-way-ANOVA

Post hoc analysis (t-test with Bonferroni corrected p-value*)

Untrained laypersons vs. Trained laypersons

Untrained laypersons vs. lifeguards

Trained laypersons vs. lifeguards

PBLS

47.08 (38.41–55.76)

78.63 (72.06–85.19)

89.62 (85.85–93.38)

F(2,29) = 64.011, p < 0.001)

t(18) = −5.21, p < 0.001

t(20) = −11.38, p < 0.001

t(21) = −3.42, p = 0.02

FBAOM

46.50 (38.54–54.46)

75.00 (65.54–84.46)

62.25 (52.92–71.58)

F(2,27) = 13.038, p < 0.001

t(17) = −6.72, p < 0.001

t(18) = −2.91, p = 0.03

t(18) = 2.17, p = 0.09

  1. The table shows the ANOVA of assessment mean scores as per cent of max score for PBLS and FBAOM and the Bonferroni adjusted post hoc analysis. *Values < 0.05 are considered significant