. 2020 Sep 4;20:1350. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09425-7

Table 3.

The comparison of the mean scores of awareness, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and self-medication behaviors in the intervention and control groups before and after the intervention

Variables	Groups	Before Intervention	After Intervention	p-value^b	Mean Difference ± SD	95% confidence interval for Difference
Variables	Groups	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	p-value^b	Mean Difference ± SD	Lower	Upper
Awareness	Intervention Control	48.63 ± 18.21 44.45 ± 19.86	82.87 ± 12.24 45.3 ± 19.70	< 0.001 0.44	−34.25 ± 19.77 −6.66 ± 10.86	−39.10 −9.33	−29.38 − 0.99
Awareness	p-value^a	0.85	< 0.001
Perceived Susceptibility	Intervention Control	47.65 ± 15.49 48.10 ± 17.02	78.79 ± 17.58 50.12 ± 15.71	< 0.001 0.59	−31.14 ± 24.65 −2.05 ± 31.33	−37.19 −9.75	− 2508 5.66
Perceived Susceptibility	p-value^a	0.87	< 0.001
Perceived Severity	Intervention Control	49.53 ± 16.08 45.46 ± 13.38	62.22 ± 14.05 44.51 ± 11.47	< 0.001 0.3	−12.70 ± 20.98 1.14 ± 4.09	−17.85 0.13	−7.54 2.14
Perceived Severity	p-value^a	0.13	< 0.001
Perceived Benefits	Intervention Control	53.10 ± 19.44 55.75 ± 6.39	75.75 ± 11.24 56.89 ± 5.99	< 0.001 0.2	−22.65 ± 17.83 −1.14 ± 2.89	−27.03 − 1.85	−18.26 −0.43
Perceived Benefits	p-value^a	0.29	< 0.001
Perceived Barriers	Intervention Control	58.10 ± 17.66 50.60 ± 18.19	53.33 ± 18.48 50.83 ± 16.88	0.04 0.81	4.78 ± 19.18 −0.23 ± 7.77	0.06 −2.13	9.49 1.67
Perceived Barriers	p-value^a	0.01	0.41
Self-Medication Behavior	Intervention Control	45.74 ± 11.98 48.48 ± 17.59	15.53 ± 5.82 45.92 ± 15.44	< 0.001 0.20	30.21 ± 12.50 2.56 ± 4.35	27.14 1.49	33.28 3.63
Self-Medication Behavior	p-value^a	0.29	< 0.001

^a Significant, Independent -samples t-test

^b Significant, Paired-samples t-test