The Effect of Guided Imagery on Stress and Fatigue in Patients with Thyroid Cancer Undergoing Radioactive Iodine Therapy

Table 2

Homogeneity between experimental and control sroups (𝑁=84).

Variables	Exp. (𝑛=44)	Con. (𝑛=40)	𝑡	𝑃
	M ± SD	M ± SD
Stress	28.23±15.40	29.05±12.77	0.265	0.792
Fatigue	91.52±42.84	92.30±29.60	0.096	0.924
Heart rate variability
Standard deviation of all NN intervals (SDNN)	23.06±8.00	25.94±11.77	1.322	0.190
Total power (TP)	5.84±0.76	5.95±0.90	0.585	0.560
Low frequency (LF)	4.41±0.96	4.54±1.16	0.583	0.561
High frequency (HF)	4.15±1.15	4.21±1.22	0.189	0.851