Effect of hand reflexology in ameliorating anxiety, pain, and fatigue among patients undergoing coronary angiography

Table 4 Scores of "pain" among the study and control groups after CA before the reflexology intervention, after 2 h and after 3 days of the intervention

Pain	Control (n = 30)						Study (n = 30)						Test of sig. (p₁)	Test of sig. (p₂)	Test of sig. (p₃)
	Before		After 2 h		After 3 days		Before		After 2 h		After 3 days
	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%
Pain level
No pain	1	3.3	2	6.7	2	6.7	2	6.7	5	16.7	11	36.7	4.176 (^MCp = 0.405)	11.779^* (^MCp = 0.015^*)	22.933^* (< 0.001^*)
Mild	3	10.0	3	10.0	2	6.7	4	13.3	10	33.3	10	33.3
Moderate	5	16.7	9	30.0	9	30.0	5	16.7	10	33.3	6	20.0
Severe	15	50.0	11	36.7	10	33.3	8	26.7	2	6.7	3	10.0
Intractable pain	6	20.0	5	16.7	7	23.3	11	36.7	3	10.0	0	0.0
Fr.(p₀)	2.886 (0.236)						36.200^* (< 0.001^*)

χ²: Chi square test, MC Monte Carlo, FE Fisher Exact, SD Standard deviation, t Student t-test, Fr Friedman test
p₁: “p value” to compare between the groups studied before intervention period
p₂: “p value” to compare between the groups studied after 2 h period
p₃: “p value” to compare between the groups studied after 3 days period
p₀: “p value” to compare between the studied periods in each group
^*Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05

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