Table 2.

The two groups of patients before the intervention of self-management behavior, quality of life total score, and each dimension score (mean ± SD, scores).

	Intervention group (n = 33)	Control group (n = 34)	t	P
Total score of self-management	117.09 ± 4.25	117.06 ± 3.37	0.034	0.973
Disease management	15.70 ± 1.70	15.76 ± 1.58	−0.169	0.866
Management of safe drug use	13.82 ± 1.99	13.85 ± 1.56	−0.08	0.937
Dietary management	21.42 ± 1.92	21.50 ± 1.97	−0.159	0.874
Life management	21.88 ± 2.18	21.41 ± 1.88	0.942	0.350
Emotion management	17.33 ± 1.41	17.32 ± 1.49	0.028	0.978
Social management	13.45 ± 2.56	13.47 ± 1.60	−0.031	0.975
Rehabilitation exercise management	13.48 ± 1.72	13.74 ± 1.42	−0.651	0.517
Total score of quality of life	135.55 ± 3.93	135.56 ± 4.52	−0.013	0.990
Energy	7.21 ± 1.14	7.35 ± 1.10	−0.515	0.608
Family roles	6.85 ± 0.87	7.06 ± 0.81	−1.022	0.311
Language	13.85 ± 1.52	13.88 ± 1.43	−0.094	0.926
Activity ability	17.12 ± 1.27	17.24 ± 1.42	−0.347	0.730
Emotion	14.30 ± 1.55	14.18 ± 1.31	0.361	0.719
Personality	7.85 ± 1.37	8.03 ± 1.27	−0.561	0.577
Self-care ability	15.61 ± 1.48	15.35 ± 1.59	0.674	0.503
Social role	14.15 ± 1.52	14.18 ± 1.57	−0.066	0.948
Thinking	7.33 ± 0.99	7.35 ± 1.20	−0.073	0.942
Upper limb function	12.36 ± 1.41	12.50 ± 1.26	−0.417	0.678
Vision	10.06 ± 0.66	9.71 ± 0.91	1.829	0.072
Work	8.85 ± 1.09	8.74 ± 1.05	0.432	0.667