Table 2: Depressive symptoms of patients as a total group and subgroups.

 

Depressive symptoms

Total group

(N = 32)

Experimental group

(N = 5)

Control group

(N = 27)

P value between groups

Normal

12 (37.5%)

 2

10 (37.1%)

 

Borderline

14 (43.8%)

 3

11 (40.7%)

 

Depression

6 (18.8%)

 -

6 (22.3%)

 

Total

32 (100%)

 5

27 (100%)

 

Mean scores, depressive symptoms

 

Mean, S.D.

7.3 ± 3.4

6.4 ± 3.1

8.1 ± 3.5

0.72