BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Table 3 Changes in anxiety scores before and after each of the three sessions (S1,S2,S3)

From: Impact of the practice of touch-massage® by a nurse on the anxiety of patients with hematological disorders hospitalized in a sterile environment, a randomized, controlled study

		Score STAI state
		No Touch-massage®	With Touch-massage®	Total
		N = 31	N = 31	N = 62
Session 1 before	N	31	31	62
Session 1 before	Median [Q1-Q3]	46.0[33.0;52.0]	46.0[33.0;56.0]	46.0[33.0;53.0]
Session 1 after	N	31	31	62
Session 1 after	Median [Q1-Q3]	45.0[33.0;51.0]	31.0[23.0;38.0]	36.0[27.0;46.0]
Session 2 before	N	28	29	57
Session 2 before	Median [Q1-Q3]	42.0[31.0;47.0]	44.0[30.0;52.0]	43.0[31.0;50.0]
Session 2 after	N	28	28	56
Session 2 after	Median [Q1-Q3]	41.5[30.0;47.0]	28.0[23.5;41.0]	36.5[24.5;44.5]
Session 3 before	N	29	27	56
Session 3 before	Median [Q1-Q3]	40.0[30.0;48.0]	40.0[30.0;53.0]	40.0[30.0;49.0]
Session 3 after	N	29	28	57
Session 3 after	Median [Q1-Q3]	38.0[27.0;48.0]	28.5[23.0;33.0]	30.0[25.0;42.0]

(NB: the number of participants is variable due to patients lost to follow-up, unrealized sessions and an incomplete questionnaire)

Back to article page

ISSN: 2662-7671

Contact us

Submission enquiries: bmccomplementarymedicineandtherapies@biomedcentral.com
General enquiries: ORSupport@springernature.com