2.5. Data Analyses
An For quantitative survey data, univariate descriptive analyses of demographic information were first conducted to better understand the senior companion and caregiver samples. Because of the small sample size, medians were reported instead of means and standard deviations. We then computed Wilcoxon signed-rank tests to discover if the main outcome variables for senior companion participants changed after the training between the control and SCP Plus groups. These analyses were repeated for the caregiver participants in the control and SCP plus groups. Friedman tests were computed for non-normally distributed outcome variables and one-way repeated measures ANOVA were computed for normally distributed outcome variables. Post-hoc between-group comparison tests were also conducted to test changes between pre- and post-tests, post- and follow-up tests, as well as pre- and follow-up tests. The study alpha was set to 0.05.For qualitative interview data, two members of the research team followed Braun and Clarke’s six-steps of thematic analysis [