Overview

This summary focuses on retrospective pre/post understanding ratings for the five summit sessions and confidence using the information after each session. Retrospective pre/post understanding items were coded from 1 to 5, where 1 indicates very low understanding and 5 indicates very high understanding. Confidence items were coded from 1 to 5, where 1 indicates strongly disagree and 5 indicates strongly agree.

## Rows: 72
## Columns: 16
## $ ResponseId          <chr> "Response ID", "R_52S5648aSPM0FfH", "R_7Nm5rNJxRus…
## $ Vaccines_Pre        <dbl> NA, 3, NA, NA, NA, 2, NA, NA, NA, 3, NA, 4, NA, 5,…
## $ Vaccines_Post       <dbl> NA, 5, NA, NA, NA, 5, NA, NA, NA, 3, NA, 5, NA, 5,…
## $ Vaccines_Confidence <dbl> NA, 5, NA, NA, NA, 5, NA, NA, NA, 5, NA, 1, NA, 5,…
## $ EitRM_Pre           <dbl> NA, NA, 5, 3, 4, NA, 4, 3, 4, NA, 5, NA, 3, NA, NA…
## $ EitRM_Post          <dbl> NA, NA, 4, NA, 4, NA, 4, 5, 5, NA, 5, NA, 5, NA, N…
## $ EitRM_Confidence    <dbl> NA, NA, 5, 5, 1, NA, 5, 5, 5, NA, 4, NA, 4, NA, NA…
## $ VenturaWIC_Pre      <dbl> NA, 2, NA, NA, NA, 1, 4, 3, NA, NA, 4, 4, NA, NA, …
## $ VenturaWIC_Post     <dbl> NA, 4, NA, NA, NA, 1, 4, 5, NA, NA, 4, 5, NA, NA, …
## $ VenturaWIC_Conf     <dbl> NA, 4, NA, NA, NA, 4, 5, 5, NA, NA, 4, 1, NA, NA, …
## $ EarlyStart_Pre      <dbl> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 3, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,…
## $ EarlyStart_Post     <dbl> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 5, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,…
## $ ES_Confidence       <dbl> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 1, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,…
## $ ShapeAdv_Pre        <dbl> NA, 2, 5, NA, NA, 4, 4, 3, NA, 4, 4, 1, NA, NA, 1,…
## $ ShapeAdv_Post       <dbl> NA, 4, 5, NA, NA, 5, 4, 5, NA, 4, 4, 4, NA, NA, 2,…
## $ ShapeAdv_Confidence <dbl> NA, 4, 5, NA, NA, 1, 5, 1, NA, 4, 4, 1, NA, NA, 3,…

Retrospective Pre/Post Understanding

Paired t-tests

The table below compares retrospective pre-session and post-session understanding ratings for each topic using paired t-tests among respondents with both ratings available.

Participants reported significant growth in understanding for all five topics, with the greatest growth observed for the topics of Vaccines and Shape Adventures.

Paired t-tests comparing retrospective pre-session and post-session understanding
Topic N with paired responses Pre mean Post mean Mean change t statistic p-value Significance
Vaccines 41 3.12 4.44 1.32 10.69 < .001 ***
Engaging Fathers, Partners, and Family Members 21 3.43 3.95 0.52 2.75 0.012 *
Ventura County WIC 38 3.03 4.16 1.13 7.97 < .001 ***
Early Start 18 3.17 4.17 1.00 5.53 < .001 ***
Shape Adventures 38 2.95 4.26 1.32 8.20 < .001 ***

Mean change visualization

This dot plot is a clean way to show change in average understanding by topic and is likely to be easier for commissioners to read than a 100% stacked pre/post chart.

High/Very High understanding before and after

In addition to mean change, the percentage of respondents rating their understanding as high or very high can be useful for presentation slides.

Share of participants reporting high or very high understanding
Topic Pre: High/Very High Post: High/Very High Percentage-point change
Vaccines 23% 88% 65 pts
Engaging Fathers, Partners, and Family Members 41% 71% 31 pts
Ventura County WIC 34% 85% 51 pts
Early Start 33% 78% 44 pts
Shape Adventures 31% 92% 62 pts

Distribution plots by topic

These 100% stacked bars show the full distribution of retrospective pre/post understanding for each session.

Confidence Using the Information in Work with Families

Distribution table

Confidence using session information in work with families
Topic Response n Percent
Early Start Strongly disagree 3 18%
Early Start Agree 9 53%
Early Start Strongly agree 5 29%
Engaging Fathers, Partners, and Family Members Strongly disagree 1 5%
Engaging Fathers, Partners, and Family Members Agree 7 33%
Engaging Fathers, Partners, and Family Members Strongly agree 13 62%
Shape Adventures Strongly disagree 3 8%
Shape Adventures Disagree 1 2%
Shape Adventures Neutral 1 2%
Shape Adventures Agree 11 28%
Shape Adventures Strongly agree 24 60%
Vaccines Strongly disagree 3 7%
Vaccines Agree 11 25%
Vaccines Strongly agree 30 68%
Ventura County WIC Strongly disagree 1 2%
Ventura County WIC Neutral 2 5%
Ventura County WIC Agree 14 35%
Ventura County WIC Strongly agree 23 57%

Confidence plot

Agree/Strongly Agree summary

Share of participants who agreed or strongly agreed that they felt confident using the information
Topic Agree/Strongly Agree
Vaccines 93%
Engaging Fathers, Partners, and Family Members 95%
Ventura County WIC 92%
Early Start 82%
Shape Adventures 88%

The chart below provides a simplified view of the share of participants who agreed or strongly agreed that they felt confident using session content in their work with families.

Summary

  • Participants reported higher levels of understanding after each session than before the summit.
  • The paired t-tests were significant for all topics.
  • The mean change plot offers a clean presentation-friendly view of change across topics.
  • Agreement in confidence to apply content to their work high (above 80%) for all topics.