TABLE 2.

Results of the analysis of the VAS of the two groups of patients in the pre-test and post-test.

	n	Pre-test	Post-tset	F	P	η2
The intervention group	17	7.00 ± 0.93	5.50 ± 1.69
The control group	16	7.14 ± 0.90	6.86 ± 1.07
Main effect of group				1.61	0.23	0.11
Main effect of time				20.83	0.01 †	0.62
Time by group interaction effects				9.63	0.01 †	0.43

^†P < 0.01.