Table 2.
Comparison of nausea before and after the intervention in the intervention and control groups.
| Nausea | Group |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention (n = 34) |
Control (n = 35) |
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| Pretest | Posttest | Pretest | Posttest | ||
| Frequency, n (%) | |||||
| Yes | 22 (64.7) | 17 (50.0) | 16 (45.7) | 20 (57.1) | Before the intervention P = 0.113 After the intervention P = 0.522 |
| No | 12 (35.3) | 17 (50.0) | 19 (54.3) | 15 (42.9) | |
| Intragroup comparison | P = 0.227 | P = 0.219 | |||
| Severity, n (%) | |||||
| No vomiting | 12 (35.3) | 21 (61.8) | 19 (54.3) | 18 (51.4) | Before the intervention P = 0.161 After the intervention P = 0.121 |
| Very mild | 10 (29.4) | 3 (8.8) | 8 (22.9) | 1 (2.9) | |
| Mild | 4 (11.8) | 7 (20.6) | 2 (5.7) | 4 (11.4) | |
| Moderate | 5 (14.7) | 2 (5.9) | 2 (5.7) | 8 (22.9) | |
| Severe | 3 (8.8) | 1 (2.9) | 4 (11.4) | 4 (11.4) | |
| Intragroup comparison | P = 0.020 | P = 0.038 | |||
| Duration (hours), Mean ± SD |
11.2 ± 5.0 | 8.1 ± 4.7 | 14.3 ± 3.4 | 20.3 ± 8.3 | Before the intervention P = 0.264 After the intervention P = 0.284 |
| Intragroup comparison | P = 0.019 | P = 0.022 | |||