Table 2.
Social media communications by condition at baseline and follow-up (12 weeks).
| Communicated about: n (%) | Baseline |
12 weeks |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention Group (n = 20) | Control Group (n = 18) | Effect sizea | p-value | Intervention Group (n = 20) | Control Group (n = 18) | Effect sizea | p-value | |
| Feelings of pain | 16 (80%) | 11 (61%) | 0.21 | 0.19 | 19 (95%) | 12 (67%) | 0.36 | 0.02 |
| Opioid use | 10 (50%) | 7 (39%) | 0.11 | 0.49 | 16 (80%) | 5 (28%) | 0.52 | 0.001 |
| Coping strategies | 15 (75%) | 10 (56%) | 0.20 | 0.21 | 19 (95%) | 11 (61%) | 0.42 | 0.01 |
| Places to seek help | 12 (60%) | 8 (44%) | 0.16 | 0.34 | 17 (85%) | 7 (39%) | 0.48 | 0.003 |
| Use of illegal drugs for pain | 6 (30%) | 4 (22%) | 0.09 | 0.59 | 8 (40%) | 3 (17%) | 0.25 | 0.11 |
| Use of alternative therapies | 14 (70%) | 11 (61%) | 0.09 | 0.56 | 18 (90%) | 10 (56%) | 0.39 | 0.02 |
a
Effect size based on phi coefficient from chi-square tests.