Transition readiness assessment questionnaire (TRAQ) results
| Adult centre (18–25) | Unpaired youth paediatric clinic | Paired youth paediatric clinic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean TRAQ score (CI) baseline* | Mean TRAQ score (CI)† | Mean TRAQ score(CI)‡ | |||
| Pre-intervention (Time 1) | Pre-intervention (Time 1) | Post-intervention (Time 2) | Pre-intervention (Time 1) | Post-intervention (Time 2) | |
| n=10 | n=11 | n=18 | n=8 | n=8 | |
| 1. Skills for chronic condition self-management | 4.5§ (3.9 to 5.0) | 3.7 (2.9 to 4.6) | 3.4 (2.9 to 3.9) | 3.4 (2.3 to 4.4) | 4.0 (3.5 to 4.6) |
| 2. Self-advocacy and communication with health providers | 4.7 (4.3 to 5.0) | 4.0 (3.4 to 4.7) | 4.6 (4.4 to 4.8) | 3.9 (2.8 to 4.9) | 4.8 (4.6 to 4.9) |
Each item of TRAQ is scored on a 1–5 point scale, where 1 is the lowest skill level, for example, ‘No, I do not know how but I want to learn’; and 5, the highest, with the response, ‘Yes, I always do this when I need to’. Each item was used to generate a composite average of the two domains, where the lower the score, the less likely the youth is prepared to transition.
*p values generated from the Wilcoxon rank-sum test comparison of baseline adults <age 25 in adult CF centre versus Time 2 of all paediatric survey participants in the paediatric centre.
†p values generated from the Wilcoxon rank-sum test comparing Time 1 versus Time 2 of unpaired paediatric patients (comparing respondent groups in pre- and post-, but not within patient comparison).
‡p values generated from the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test comparing Time 1 versus Time 2 of paired (paired within individual) paediatric patients.
§p<0.05.