Table 2. Mean difference in patients' nausea score in intervention and control groups before and after chemotherapy .
Nausea level |
Control
Mean (SD) |
Music plus massage
Mean (SD) |
P-value a |
Before chemotherapy | 1.33 (0.41) | 0.93 (0.32) | 0.89 |
After chemotherapy | 5.43 (0.60) | 1.53 (0.43) | <0.0001 |
P-valueb | <0.0001 | 0.19 |
aThe difference in nausea score between two group was compared with t –test and reported by using mean(M) and standard deviation(SD), bpaired t-test was used to compare the nausea score before and after chemotherapy and reported by using mean(M) and standard deviation(SD).