Table 3.

Appetite status of the study participants throughout the study.

Variable	Intervention	Control	p ∗
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Feeling hungry
Before	6.01 ± 1.76	5.714 ± 2.12	0.648
After	5.21 ± 1.04	4.70 ± 1.48	0.230
p∗∗	0.097	0.038
Sense of satiety
Before	6.72 ± 2.47	6.67 ± 3.01	0.951
After	7.30 ± 1.29	6.80 ± 1.84	0.331
p∗∗	0.393	0.614
Desire to eat
Before	6.55 ± 2.17	6.95 ± 1.88	0.536
After	6.30 ± 1.06	6.30 ± 1.19	1.00
p∗∗	0.758	0.134
Desire to eat salty foods
Before	4.28 ± 1.78	2.76 ± 1.03	0.064
After	3.70 ± 1.13	4.01 ± 1.82	0.634
p∗∗	0.314	0.008
Desire to eat sweet foods
Before	6.11 ± 2.62	5.67 ± 1.86	0.644
After	5.11 ± 1.31	5.20 ± 2.16	0.863
p∗∗	0.078	0.438
Desire to eat fatty foods
Before	4.50 ± 1.98	3.57 ± 1.14	0.208
After	4.00 ± 1.25	2.30 ± 1.08	<0.001
p∗∗	0.236	0.014

^∗ p value for independent sample t-test;^∗∗p value for paired t-test. A p value <0.05 is statistically significant.