Table 5.

EORTC QLQ-C30 (v3.0) scale score ($\overline{x}\pm s$, points).

Grouping	N	Symptom field		Functional area	General health field
		Before nursing	After 12 weeks of nursing	Before nursing	After 12 weeks of nursing	Before nursing	After 12 weeks of nursing
Control group	60	36.44 ± 3.28	29.59 ± 2.32∗	15.54 ± 2.09	25.39 ± 4.13∗	3.15 ± 0.25	4.03 ± 0.45∗
Research group	60	36.12 ± 3.34	24.36 ± 1.14∗	15.65 ± 2.02	40.77 ± 5.12∗	3.16 ± 0.08	7.12 ± 0.11∗
t value		0.529	15.672	0.293	18.111	0.295	51.668
P value		0.598	<0.01	0.769	<0.01	0.768	<0.01

Note: ∗ represented the comparison of this group before nursing and 12 weeks after nursing, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05).