Table 5.
Identification of basic emotions, somatic stress symptoms, and stress management techniques before and after the intervention for the experimental and control groups.
| Anxiety disorders | Experimental group (n=20) | Control group (n=21) | |||
| Preintervention, mean (SD) | Postintervention, mean (SD) | t valuea | Preintervention, mean (SD) | Postintervention, mean (SD) | |
| Identification of the 4 basic emotions | 1.55 (1.05) | 3.35b (0.05) | –6.99 | 2.86 (1.35) | 2.86 (1.01) |
| Identification of somatic symptoms of stress | 0.70 (0.66) | 2.15b (0.13) | –7.31 | 1.05 (0.74) | 1.00 (0.77) |
| Identification of stress management technique | 1.05 (0.69) | 2.15b (0.67) | –6.85 | 1.14 (0.73) | 0.86 (0.73) |
| Total score | 3.35 (1.79) | 7.65b (0.88) | –10.46 | 5.05 (1.83) | 4.71 (1.52) |
aPaired samples t test; df=19.
bP<.001.