. 2015 Jan;3(1):67–74.

Table 1.

Comparison of mean scores of coping strategies in two studied groups in each phase of the study

Independent t-test	Time	Before intervention		One month after intervention		Two months after intervention
Variable	Group	Mean±SD	P value	Mean±SD	P value	Mean±SD	P value
Problem-focused strategies	Experiment	45±12.7	0.664	54.8±7.3	<0.001	55.7±7.2	<0.001
Problem-focused strategies	Control	46.1±10.5	0.664	46.2±10.3	<0.001	45.7±10.3	<0.001
Emotion -focused strategies	Experiment	66.1±8.8	0.667	64.6±9.2	0.185	61.9±10.7	0.007
Emotion -focused strategies	Control	67±10.3	0.667	67.3±9.6	0.185	67.8±9.3	0.007

P values lower than 0.05 are statistically significant