Clinical Study
The Reduction of Distress Using Therapeutic Geothermal Water Procedures in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Table 2
Demographic and basic clinical characteristics of the groups.
| | Sociodemographic characteristics | Geothermal group | Control group |
| | Age, average (SD) | 46.5 (10.6) | 46.2 (9.3) | | Period of service, average (SD) | 22.5 (11.4) | 22.4 (9.9) | | Health-related factors | | | | BMI, average (SD) | 27.1 (2.9) | 28.7 (5.1) | | Morbidity, (%) | 59 (92.2) | 34 (68.0) | | Use of medication, (%) | 19 (29.7) | 23 (46.9) | | Good subjective health condition, (%) | 33 (50.8) | 27 (54.0) | | Smoking, (%) | 27 (42.2) | 24 (48) | | Alcohol at work once in several weeks, (%) | 8 (12.9) | 1 (2.0) | | Frequent stress, (%) | 16 (24.6) | 12 (24.5) | | Stress intensity, VAS, average (SD) | 3.9 (1.6) | 3.6 (1.7) | | Frequent pain, (%) | 4 (6.2) | 3 (6.0) | | Pain intensity, VAS, average (SD) | 3.05 (1.6) | 2.4 (1.6) | | Fatigue intensity (7-point scale), average (SN) | 3.4 (1.3) | 3.3 (1.0) | | Insufficient quality of sleep, (%) | 21 (32.3) | 12 (24.5) |
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