Efficacy of a self-management program in patients with chronic viral hepatitis in China

BMC Nursing

Table 2 Change in mean scores of CLDQ, CES-D and GSES in the intervention and usual care groups at 3 and 6 months follow-up

Indicator	Time point	Two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA)									Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)*
		IV group			UC group			p value			Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)*
		n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD	Interaction	Within group	Between group	I - J	SE	p value**
CLDQ (QOL scale)
	Baseline	30	135.2	20.6	26	140.0	21.2	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	−3.893	6.053	0.523
	3 M	30	152.0	14.5	26	136.5	17.7				16.230	4.652	0.001
	6 M	30	164.0	13.5	26	133.5	14.2				30.544	4.026	< 0.001
CES-D (Depression scale)
	Baseline	30	16.7	8.9	26	12.4	7.8	0.002	< 0.001	0.537	3.891	2.439	0.117
	3 M	30	11.8	6.3	26	11.8	5.8				−0.267	1.749	0.879
	6 M	30	9.5	5.1	26	11.0	5.3				−2.203	1.499	0.148
GSES (Self – efficacy scale)
	Baseline	30	2.4	0.6	26	2.5	0.6	< 0.001	0.005	0.001	−0.144	0.177	0.422
	3 M	30	2.7	0.5	26	2.3	0.4				0.434	0.133	0.002
	6 M	30	3.1	0.4	26	2.2	0.4				0.843	0.118	< 0.001

CLDQ Chronic Liver Disease questionnaires, CES-D the Center for Epidemiologic Depression scale, GSES General Self Efficacy Scale, IV Intervention group, SD Standard Deviation, I – J = Difference in average value, SE Standard Error, ANOVA Analysis of variance, ANCOVA Analysis of covariance, UC Usual care group, BL Base line, M month
*Analysis of covariance was carried out using gender as a covariate
**p values comparing the intervention group with the control group were obtained by multiple comparisons (Bonferroni’s correction)

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