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. 2014 Jul 13;2014:430195. doi: 10.1155/2014/430195

Table 6.

Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales of the intervention and control groups.

	Intervention group (n = 44)				Control group (n = 38)				Group difference
	Baseline	Postintervention	Z ^a	P value^a	Baseline	Postintervention	Z ^a	P value^a	Baseline		Postintervention
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Z ^a	P value^a	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Z ^a	P value^a	U ^b	P value^b	U ^b	P value^b
Depression	11.18 ±6.18	7.05 ± 5.11	3.43	0.001∗	12.11 ± 7.32	12.89 ± 6.70	1.14	0.256	834	0.985	404	0.000∗
Anxiety	9.64 ± 7.05	5.64 ± 3.72	3.49	0.000∗	8.26 ± 5.94	10.05 ± 5.47	1.87	0.062	745	0.395	423	0.000∗
Stress	12.91 ± 7.70	7.55 ± 6.37	3.38	0.001∗	11.37 ± 7.07	11.74 ± 7.63	0.31	0.761	709	0.233	574	0.014∗

^aThe Wilcoxon signed ranks test was used to compare the baseline data to the postintervention data of the control and intervention groups.

^bThe Mann-Whitney U Test was used to compare the control and intervention groups.

*A P value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.