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. 2020 Oct 6;20:345. doi: 10.1186/s12909-020-02263-6

Table 2.

Pre- and Post-Assessment of Perceived Stress, Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, Low Sense of Personal Achievement, and Sleep Quality (n = 55)

s Pre-Intervention Post-Intervention Mean change P Cohen’s d
Perceived Stress 6.3 ± 3.1 5.3 ± 3.5 1.0 ± 2.7 .012 .334
Emotional Exhaustion 19.2 ± 8.3 16.2 ± 9.2 3.0 ± 6.4 .001 .353
Depersonalization 12.5 ± 7.5 9.9 ± 6.1 2.7 ± 5.6 .001 .411
Personal Achievement 34.9 ± 8.0 36.7 ± 7.3 −1.8 ± 5.8 .023 .275
Global Sleep Quality Scorea 7.3 ± 3.2 4.7 ± 2.5 2.6 ± 2.7 <.001 .925
Subjective Sleep Quality Scoreb 1.4 ± .7 .7 ± .7 .7 ± .7 <.001 1.033
Sleep Duration (hours)c 6.7 ± .9 7.1 ± .8 .4 ± .8 .001 .431
Sleep Latency (minutes)d 43.5 ± 64.5 22.1 ± 18.6 21.4 ± 62.7 <.001 .433
Sleep Efficiency (%)e 84.9 ± 10.2 91.0 ± 7.7 5.7 ± 8.6 .021 .673

a A total score of “5” or greater is indicative of poor sleep quality

b Subjective Sleep Quality is a rating of sleep quality in the past month, ranging from 0 to 3 with ‘0 = very good’ and ‘3 = very bad’

cSleep duration is the number of hours of actual sleep a person gets at night

dSleep latency is the number of minutes it takes to fall asleep each night

eSleep efficiency is equal to (total number of hours of asleep)/(total number of hours in bed)*100