Table 4.

Mean ± standard deviation of hospital anxiety and depression scale scores in the intervention and control groups at pre-intervention and 6 wk post-intervention.

	Group	Samples	Before intervention	After intervention	t	P
HADS-A	Intervention group	45	12.24 ± 2.34	3.91 ± 1.41	26.47	<.001
	Control group	45	12.67 ± 2.64	9.64 ± 2.24	11.09	<.001
	T		−0.80	−14.54
	P		.42	<.001
HADS-D	Intervention group	45	12.36 ± 1.40	4.00 ± 1.37	31.39	<.001
	Control group	45	12.62 ± 1.37	9.67 ± 1.68	9.59	<.001
	T		−0.70	−18.97
	P		.49	<.001

HADS-A: anxiety, HADS-D: depression.

HADS = hospital anxiety and depression scale.