Table 5
Health symptoms and mastery: baseline and 12 months
| Total (n=117) | Intervention effect | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention group (n=66) | Control group (n=51) | Statistic | |||||
| Baseline | 12 months | Baseline | 12 months | B1j | CI | p | |
| n = number of patients. | |||||||
| B1j = intervention effect: difference between groups in mean value of the outcome measure at 12 months corrected for baseline and for clustering and for age and hours of appointment. | |||||||
| CI = 95% confidence interval. | |||||||
| *Significant difference between intervention group and control group. | |||||||
| Symptoms | |||||||
| 4DSQ | |||||||
| Distress, mean (SD) | 21.00 (6.7) | 7.47 (7.2) | 22.24 (6.7) | 8.53 (7.6) | 0.013 | −0.179 to 0.205 | 0.45 |
| Depression, mean (SD) | 2.41 (2.8) | 0.89 (1.9) | 3.45 (3.2) | 0.84 (2.2) | −0.048 | −0.195 to 0.099 | 0.74 |
| Anxiety, mean (SD) | 3.99 (4.6) | 1.33 (2.8) | 6.28 (6.19)* | 1.94 (4.0) | −0.029 | −0.154 to 0.096 | 0.67 |
| Physical symptoms, mean (SD) | 12.20 (6.1) | 5.73 (5.0) | 12.8 (6.1) | 6.22 (5.1) | 0.000 | −0.100 to 0.100 | 0.50 |
| SCL-90 | |||||||
| Total score, mean (SD) | 176 (44) | 124 (38) | 190 (51) | 132 (38) | −0.017 | −0.184 to 0.150 | 0.58 |
| Psychological resources and responses | |||||||
| Mastery, mean (SD) | 3.22 (0.66) | 3.42 (0.95) | 3.18 (0.69) | 3.54 (0.77) | −0.112 | −0.414 to 0.190 | 0.77 |
