Table 2.

Intragroup and intergroup comparison of mean nutritional risk screening assessment form scores of patients in experimental and control groups

		Experimental Group (n = 30)	Control Group (n = 30)	Test Statistic
		Mean ± Sd	Mean ± Sd	z	*p	Cohen
Nutritional risk screening assessment form	Pre-education	1.47 ± 1.22	1.13 ± 1.25	−0.974	0.330	0.2752833
	Month 1	1.3 ± 0.99	2.03 ± 0.76	−2.908	0.004***	0.8271722
	Month 3	1.17 ± 0.79	2.43 ± 0.57	−5.377	0.001***	1.829163
Test statistic		6.500	40.078
**p		0.001***	0.001***

^*p: Mann Whitney U Test

**p: Friedman Test 

***p < 0.05