Table 1 Participants summary results for all categories
Experienced group | Inexperienced group | Between groups | Category total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Response category | n | M (SD) | m (IQR) | n | M (SD) | m (IQR) | p value | n | M (SD) | m (IQR) |
Category I Physiologic and technical fidelity (18 questions) | 192 | 4.44 (0.72) | 5 (1) | 155 | 4.27 (0.99) | 5 (1) | 0.070 | 347 | 4.37 (0.86) | 5 (1) |
Category II Psychological fidelity and believability (5 questions) | 71 | 4.34 (0.93) | 5 (1) | 68 | 4.09 (1.23) | 4.5 (1) | 0.181 | 139 | 4.24 (1.08) | 5 (1) |
Category III Content and predictive validity (5 questions) | 93 | 4.29 (0.90) | 5 (1) | 74 | 4.47 (0.82) | 5 (1) | 0.186 | 167 | 4.38 (0.86) | 5 (1) |
Category IV Relevance, Didactic, and Usefulness (12 questions) | 149 | 4.57 (0.80) | 5 (1) | 151 | 4.50 (0.99) | 5 (1) | 0.483 | 300 | 4.54 (0.90) | 5 (1) |
Grand total | 505 | 4.44 (0.81) | 5 (1) | 448 | 4.35 (1.00) | 5 (1) | 0.24 | 953 | 4.41 (0.91) | 5 (1) |