Health symptoms and mastery: baseline and 3 months
| Total (n=153) | Intervention effect | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention group (n=85) | Control group (n=68) | Statistic | |||||
| Baseline | 3 months | Baseline | 3 months | B1j | CI | p | |
| n = number of patients. | |||||||
| B1j = intervention effect: difference between groups in mean value of the outcome measure at 3 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) | 21.35 (6.4) | 10.6 (7.0) | 22.0 (7.0) | 12.5 (9.3) | 0.029 | −0.122 to 0.180 | 0.35 |
| Depression, mean (SD) | 2.54 (2.9) | 0.98 (2.0) | 3.37 (3.1) | 1.58 (2.7) | 0.024 | −0.096 to 0.147 | 0.35 |
| Anxiety, mean (SD) | 4.04 (4.4) | 2.03 (2.9) | 5.96 (5.8)* | 3.07 (4.9) | −0.014 | −0.100 to 0.072 | 0.63 |
| Physical symptoms, mean (SD) | 12.37 (6.1) | 7.41 (5.4) | 12.8 (5.8) | 8.06 (5.7) | 0.003 | −0.089 to 0.095 | 0.50 |
| SCL-90 | |||||||
| Total score, mean (SD) | 176 (43) | 133 (34) | 188 (48) | 142 (49) | −0.025 | −0.174 to 0.124 | 0.63 |
| Psychological resources and responses | |||||||
| Mastery, mean (SD) | 3.24 (0.63) | 3.56 (0.68) | 3.18 (0.65) | 3.49 (0.74) | 0.046 | −0.166 to 0.258 | 0.33 |