Table 3

Spearman and Partial Spearman Correlations for Comfort Interacting With and Treating People With IDD

Variable	Comfort measure	Spearman correlation coefficient (95% CI)	p Value	Partial Spearman correlation coefficient^{^a} (95% CI)	p Value
Amount of prior experience interacting with people with IDD [rated on 4-point Likert scale]	Comfort interacting	0.45 (0.37 to 0.53)	<0.01	0.42 (0.33 to 0.49)	<0.01
	Comfort treating	0.42 (0.33 to 0.50)	<001	0.38 (0.29 to 0.46)	<0.01
Pediatric-focused residency program	Comfort interacting	0.18 (0.09 to 0.28)	<0.01	0.03 (−0.07 to 0.13)	0.55
Pediatric-focused residency program	Comfort treating	0.18 (0.08 to 0.28)	<0.01	0.06 (−0.04 to 0.16)	0.25
Amount of formal education about caring for patients with IDD	Comfort interacting	0.18 (0.08 to 0.28)	<0.01	0.04 (−0.06 to 0.14)	0.39
	Comfort treating	0.15 (0.05 to 0.25)	<0.01	−0.00 (−0.10 to 0.10)	0.97
Current year of medical training	Comfort interacting	0.05 (−0.05 to 0.14)	0.36	−0.03 (−0.13 to 0.07)	0.61
Current year of medical training	Comfort treating	0.07 (−0.03 to 0.17)	0.16	0.00 (−0.10 to 0.10)	0.98
Age	Comfort interacting	0.08 (−0.02 to 0.18)	0.10	0.05 (−0.05 to 0.15)	0.33
Age	Comfort treating	0.12 (0.01 to 0.21)	0.03	0.08 (−0.02 to 0.18)	0.11
Sex	Comfort interacting	0.06 (−0.04 to 0.16)	0.23	0.09 (−0.01 to 0.19)	0.07
Sex	Comfort treating	0.05 (−0.05 to 0.16)	0.29	0.09 (−0.01 to 0.19)	0.09

Abbreviation: IDD = intellectual and/or developmental disability.
↵a Partial Spearman correlation controls for all the other variables in the first column.