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

Table 5 Scores of "fatigue" among the study and control groups after CA before the reflexology intervention, after 2 h and after 3 days of the intervention

	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	%
Fatigue
Lack of fatigue	0	0.0	2	6.7	2	6.7	2	6.7	6	20.0	15	50.0	3.878 (^MCp = 0.445)	17.797^* (^MCp = 0.001^*)	21.941^* (< 0.001^*)
Mild	4	13.3	3	10.0	6	20.0	4	13.3	15	50.0	9	30.0
Moderate	5	16.7	8	26.7	6	20.0	9	30.0	4	13.3	4	13.3
Severe	13	43.3	11	36.7	14	46.7	10	33.3	3	10.0	2	6.7
Very severe fatigue	8	26.7	6	20.0	2	6.7	5	16.7	2	6.7	0	0.0
Fr.(p₀)	4.490 (0.106)						30.299^* (< 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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