The Reduction of Distress Using Therapeutic Geothermal Water Procedures in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Table 3

Comparison of the effect on distress in the study’s groups.

		Geothermal group		Control group
		Average (SD)	value	Average (SD)	value
Number of symptoms	Before	4.35^** (1.85)	<0.001	3.32^** (1.77)	0.722
	After	1.71^*** (1.38)		3.38^*** (1.31)
Intensity of symptoms	Before	5.41^*** (1.78)	<0.001	3.82^*** (1.83)	0.894
	After	3.16^* (1.95)		3.80^* (1.29)
Control of symptoms	Before	5.64^* (1.99)	<0.001	6.44^* (2.05)	0.033
	After	7.62^*** (2.21)		6.00^*** (1.68)

For comparisons, means before and after used paired-samples -test.
For comparisons, means between geothermal and control groups used students -test:
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