Table 2. Comparison of Preterm and Full-Term Mothers’ and Fathers’ Scores (POMS).
| Line No. | Dimensions | Preterm |
Full-Term |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | |||
| Mothers | ||||||
| 1 | Tension | 53.76 | 11.675 | 45.97 | 8.542 | .010 |
| 2 | Depression | 49.43 | 9.574 | 43.62 | 5.335 | .000 |
| 3 | Anger | 51.57 | 13.094 | 43.48 | 6.332 | .020 |
| 4 | Vigor | 50.19 | 11.707 | 62.76 | 10.456 | .000 |
| 5 | Fatigue | 52.90 | 10.242 | 47.41 | 8.060 | .030 |
| Fathers | ||||||
| 6 | Anger | 51.00 | 16.500 | 43.30 | 6.230 | .004 |
| 7 | Vigor | 54.26 | 10.520 | 63.43 | 6.860 | .008 |