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. 2011 Apr 1;34(4):451–458. doi: 10.1093/sleep/34.4.451

Table 5.

Maternal mood (POMS)

Baseline Week 2 Week 3 ANOVA
Variable M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) WL F P ES
    Tension
        Control 8.17 (5.50) 7.29 (4.84) 6.58 (5.60) 0.920 3.54 0.033 0.080
        Interneta,c 9.65 (5.88) 8.00 (6.10) 6.83 (6.38) 0.762 14.64 < 0.001 0.238
        Internet & Routinea,c 8.68 (4.44) 5.86 (4.10) 4.76 (3.76) 0.613 15.88 < 0.001 0.387
    Depression
        Control 5.55 (6.49) 5.79 (7.44) 5.08 (8.67) 0.990 0.411 0.665 0.010
        Interneta,c 6.57 (7.98) 5.00 (7.91) 3.77 (7.11) 0.832 9.52 < 0.001 0.168
        Internet & Routinea,c 4.93 (5.59) 2.92 (4.49) 1.96 (2.91) 0.722 15.76 < 0.001 0.278
    Anger
        Control 5.76 (5.52) 5.38 (5.98) 4.48 (6.58) 0.950 2.17 0.121 0.050
        Internet 6.35 (6.22) 4.83 (6.07) 4.31 (6.73) 0.911 4.57 0.013 0.089
        Internet & Routinea 4.74 (4.84) 3.10 (3.87) 2.25 (3.02) 0.751 13.58 < 0.001 0.249
    Fatigue
        Controlb,c 8.30 (5.48) 7.70 (5.91) 6.24 (5.45) 0.809 9.69 < 0.001 0.191
        Interneta,c 9.51 (5.65) 7.25 (5.81) 5.40 (5.60) 0.613 29.70 < 0.001 0.387
        Internet & Routinea,c 8.23 (5.26) 5.05 (3.79) 3.36 (3.42) 0.471 46.13 < 0.001 0.529
    Vigor
        Control 13.88 (5.63) 12.82 (6.20) 13.86 (6.06) 0.937 2.76 0.069 0.063
        Internet 13.47 (6.39) 14.23 (6.04) 14.71 (6.17) 0.954 2.28 0.108 0.046
        Internet & Routinea 13.67 (5.85) 15.58 (5.34) 16.31 (5.94) 0.811 9.58 < 0.001 0.189
    Confusion
        Control 5.55 (3.86) 5.77 (4.08) 4.87 (3.77) 0.936 2.80 0.067 0.064
        Interneta,c 6.69 (4.16) 5.55 (3.95) 4.72 (4.34) 0.725 17.95 < 0.001 0.275
        Internet & Routinea,c 5.20 (3.87) 4.12 (2.60) 3.38 (2.38) 0.682 19.11 < 0.001 0.318

A one way repeated measures ANOVA was utilized to analyze group differences over time.

a

Significant difference between baseline/week 2 and baseline/week 3.

b

Significant difference between baseline and week 3.

c

Significant difference between week 2 and week 3.

Significant interaction.

WL, Wilks lambda; ES, Effect size as partial Eta2 where 0.10 = small effect, 0.25 = moderate effect, and 0.40 = large