The effect of behavioral therapy based counseling with anxious mothers on their infants' colic: a randomized controlled clinical trial

Table 3 Comparison of mean Postpartum Anxiety scores before and 2 weeks after intervention between intervention and control groups

Variable	Control group Mean(SD)	Interventiongroup Mean(SD)	Mean Difference (95% CI)	p-value
Postpartum Anxiety score range: 0 to 153
Before intervention	120.6(10.2)	119.5(7.3)	-1.0(-6.3 to 4.2)	0.694
Two weeks After intervention	105.7(27.3)	81.8(41.5)	22.5(2.3 to 42.7)	0.029

For comparison of groups before intervention Independent t-test and after intervention, ANCOVA test with controlled baseline values was used
Before intervention, the number of samples in the counseling and control groups was 23, and after the intervention in the counseling and control groups was 18 and 23 respectively
CI Confidence Interval, SD Standard Deviation

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