Table V.

Comparing the mean and standard deviation of the emotion-focused coping strategy and problem-focused coping strategy before the intervention and on the tenth day of the medical waiting period of assisted reproductive treatments in the three groups: control, problem-solving skills training, and positive reappraisal coping intervention

The variable coping strategy		Group			Result of Ancova test
		Control	Problem-solving skills training	Positive reappraisal coping intervention	Group effect	Covariate effect
Problem-focused
	Before intervention      Waiting period      Effect size	29.11 ± 9.067 28.54 ± 9.70 -	29.37 ± 10.47 33.71 ± 9.31 0.004	31.13 ± 10.43 30.74 ± 10.96 0.066	F= 3.81 p= 0.025a	F= 37.28 p< 0.001
Emotion-focused
	Before intervention      Waiting period      Effect size	30.02 ± 9.91 32.09 ± 11.65 -	32.55 ± 6.97 29.20 ± 9.88 0.062	33.80 ± 11.64 28.74 ± 7.96 0.033	F= 3.43 p= 0.036b	F= 29.68 p< 0.001

All data presented as Mean ± SD.

^a. Comparisons pairwise between groups showed, significant differences between the problem-solving skills training with control (p=0.010) and positive reappraisal coping intervention group (p=0.047)

^b. Significant difference between positive reappraisal coping intervention the control group