Table 2.

Means and SDs of the state anxiety scores at each time point

		Group 1			Group 2
Time points	X̄±SD	95% Confidence interval		X̄±SD	95% Confidence interval		p
		Lower bound	Upper bound		Lower bound	Upper bound
T0	37.00±1.74a	33.05	40.95	37.20±1.05a	34.82	39.58	0.579
T1	42.10±1.13bc	39.52	44.68	42.60±1.09b	40.12	45.08	0.579
T2	43.20±1.12bc	40.66	45.74	43.00±1.13b	40.43	45.57	0.971
T3	43.40±1.57c	39.84	46.96	42.90±1.75b	38.93	46.87	0.912
T4	42.40±1.46bc	39.07	45.72	42.20±1.01b	39.89	44.51	1.000
T5	42.50±1.15bc	39.88	45.12	41.90±1.36b	38.80	45.00	0.853
T6	41.30±1.13bc	38.73	43.87	40.90±0.93ab	38.78	43.02	1.000
T7	40.70±1.02bc	38.39	43.01	40.60±0.90ab	38.54	42.66	1.000
T8	38.80±1.27ab	35.92	41.68	39.50±0.83ab	37.61	41.38	0.529
p	0.005**			0.043*

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01; superscript letters indicate the differences between the time points