The effectiveness of behavioural interventions in the primary prevention of Hepatitis C amongst injecting drug users: a randomised controlled trial and lessons learned

Table 5 Changes in situational confidence, hepatitis C knowledge and readiness to change measures

Measure	Baseline				Six-month Follow-up
	EPC n = 37		SEC n = 41		EPC n = 36		SEC n = 41		Effect of Treatment		Effect of Time
ANCOVA	Mean	sd	Mean	sd	Mean	sd	Mean	sd	F	p	F	p
DICQ – Unpleasant emotions	49.27	30.1	54.51	30.06	56.86	28.8	62.85	31.56	0.38	0.54	14.44	0.00
DICQ – Physical discomfort score	56.76	27.2	61.9	28.26	64.11	24.09	66.27	30.85	0.01	0.92	10.07	0.00
DICQ – Pleasant emotions	74.16	25.3	79.17	21.67	77.44	24.62	78.51	25.73	0.03	0.87	15.38	0.00
DICQ – Testing personal control	57.76	30.7	60.44	31.51	64.53	28.76	63.1	32.42	0.05	0.82	11.54	0.00
DICQ – Urges and temptations	49.27	30.2	56.98	29.4	58.22	28.41	59.61	31.64	0.06	0.81	15.08	0.00
DICQ – Conflict with others	59.27	30.3	65.24	28.36	67.61	26.35	68.59	30.84	0.07	0.79	20.54	0.00
DICQ – Social pressure to use	49.43	32.9	52.68	34.48	48.5	35.9	56.54	34.49	0.92	0.34	20.63	0.00
DICQ – Pleasant times with others score	59.14	27.5	63.49	28.64	67.5	27.02	68.68	29.12	0.00	0.99	13.93	0.00
DICQ – Overall score	56.08	26.8	61.76	26.14	61.06	25.14	65.73	28.2	0.22	0.64	21.68	0.00
Hepatitis-C Knowledge Questionnaire	16.22	2.29	16.2	1.79	17.44	1.89	17.61	1.66	0.08	0.78	16.46	0.00
Readiness to change stage	2.54	0.73	2.54	0.78	2.58	0.73	2.56	0.78	0.00	0.99	0.57	0.45

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