Midwives’ empathy and shared decision making from women’s perspective - sensitivity of an assessment to compare quality of care in prenatal and obstetric care

Table 8 Evaluation of RS and true difference for CARE-8-M scale from pregnancy to birth (N = 150)

CARE-8-M	Type of RS	Pregnancy		Birth						Effect-size^a
item		\(\overline{\boldsymbol{x}}\)	S.D.	\(\overline{\boldsymbol{x}}\)	S.D.	p	r	Mean difference	Observed difference (d)	‘True’ difference (d)	RS total (d)	RS Recali-bration (d)	RS Reprioriti-zation (d)
CARE-M-1	non-uniform recalibration	1.22	0.59	1.47	0.83	.002	.09	0.25	0.239	0.282	−0.042	−0.042	n. a.
CARE-M-2	reprioritization, non-uniform recalibration with intercept influence	1.24	0.56	1.81	1.08	≤.001	.08	0.57	0.484	0.265	0.219	0.185	0.034
CARE-M-3		1.31	0.59	1.71	0.97	≤.001	.17*	0.40	0.372
CARE-M-4	reprioritization, non-uniform recalibration with intercept influence	1.26	0.57	1.81	1.07	≤.001	.12	0.55	0.459	0.288	0.171	0.154	0.017
CARE-M-5		1.36	0.68	1.71	0.98	≤.001	.15	0.35	0.303
CARE-M-6	reprioritization, uniform recalibration	1.30	0.66	1.55	0.84	≤.001	.23**	0.25	0.246	0.385	−0.139	−0.059	−0.079
CARE-M-7		1.28	0.66	1.49	0.87	.006	.25**	0.21	0.217
CARE-M-8		1.35	0.75	1.63	0.92	≤.001	.25**	0.28	0.265
Total		1.29	0.54	1.65	0.85	≤.001	.19*	0.36	0.392

^aFor effect size calculation, the estimated parameters of the response shifts model CARE-8-M/SDM-Q-9-M were divided by the estimated standard deviation; d = Cohen’s d effect size; Values of 0.2, 0.5, 0.8 indicate “small”, “medium” and “large” effect-sizes; n. a. not applicable. Please note that rounding errors may occur when summing the effect sizes for the true difference and the response shift. ^* p < .05; ^** p < .01

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