Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for psychiatric symptoms, positive affect, and health-related quality of life of children in the intervention and control groups

	Intervention (n = 32)				Control (n = 34)
	T1 Mean (SD)	T2 Mean (SD)	Cohen's d	p	T1 Mean (SD)	T2 Mean (SD)	Cohen's d	p
Hope	38.11 (5.59)	41.52 (3.89)	0.71	0.004**	38.07 (6.48)	37.22 (6.65)	0.13	0.583
Positive emotions	18.72 (3.51)	21.48 (3.42)	0.80	0.003**	18.55 (3.68)	17.69 (3.88)	0.24	0.000***
Negative emotions	12.38 (2.85)	10.71 (3.25)	0.55	0.033	12.65 (3.87)	12.61 (3.56)	0.01	0.871
Optimism	16.01 (3.38)	16.89 (2.95)	0.28	0.188	16.42 (3.99)	16.18 (3.18)	0.07	0.423
Health-related quality of life	44.91 (22.90)	57.34 (18.92)	0.59	0.004**	46.50 (24.01)	38.77 (23.30)	0.33	0.173
Somatization	1.04 (0.73)	0.97 (0.69)	0.10	0.040	1.05 (0.79)	1.26 (0.79)	0.27	0.248
Depression	1.03 (0.51)	0.68 (0.49)	0.70	0.000***	0.97 (0.75)	1.12 (0.61)	0.22	0.304
Anxiety	1.01 (0.52)	0.79 (0.55)	0.41	0.000***	0.98 (0.65)	1.15 (0.57)	0.28	0.114
Panic	0.80 (0.84)	0.70 (0.79)	0.12	0.024	0.76 (0.77)	0.80 (0.75)	0.05	0.548
GSI-global Severity Index	0.97 (0.34)	0.79 (0.33)	0.54	0.000***	0.94 (0.52)	1.08 (0.45)	0.29	0.178

p Values after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing.

^**p < 0.01

^***p < 0.001