Confidence in Procedural Skills before and after a Two-Year Master’s Programme in Family Medicine in Gezira State, Sudan

Table 5

Regression analyses for factors influencing change in candidates’ self-evaluation of own competence in clinical skills after the master’s programme. Changes in skills are shown by three different measures: residual gain score, percent change, and raw score (see Methods for details).

Variable	Residual gain score			Percent change score			Raw change score
		Beta			Beta			Beta
Gender	−0.10	−0.09	0.44	12.4	0.25	0.04	0.27	0.21	0.08
Age	0.00	0.02	0.88	0.51	0.14	0.26	0.01	0.14	0.26
Locality	0.07	0.07	0.57	1.89	0.04	0.75	0.07	0.05	0.65
Graduating university	0.07	0.07	0.52	1.34	0.03	0.80	0.05	0.04	0.71
Clinical activity	0.00004	0.09	0.39	0.002	0.07	0.50	0.00003	0.05	0.62
Interest in family medicine	0.21	0.24	0.02	3.44	0.08	0.43	0.15	0.14	0.17
Constant	−0.951		0.06	−31.08		0.22	−0.918		0.14
Determination coefficient ()	0.089			0.084			0.087
-value	1.62			1.51			1.58
All-over value for model	0.15			0.18			0.16