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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 3 Perceived stress and current health status

From: Brief intervention for stress management and change in illness perception among hypertensive and normotensive workers: pilot study and protocol

 

Hypertensive

Normotensive

Pre

Post

Sig

Pre

Post

Sig

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Perceived stress

23.45

6.44

21.83

7.80

0.05

22.83

8.24

19.08

6.58

0.03

Health status

6.89

0.83

7.56

0.85

0.01

7.86

0.86

8.23

0.93

0.27

 

Effect size (d)

IC d 95%

Effect size (d)

IC d 95%

Inferior

Superior

Inferior

Superior

Perceived stress

− 0.22

 

− 0.25

− 0.21

− 0.65

− 0.68

− 0.63

Current health status

0.79

 

0.79

0.82

− 0.01

− 0.00

0.03

  1. SD standard deviation