Effects of Benson Relaxation Technique and Music Therapy on the Anxiety of Primiparous Women Prior to Cesarean Section: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 2

Mean scores of anxiety before and after the interventions in the groups.

Variable	Time	Groups			F value	value^a
		BRT	MT	Control
		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Anxiety	Before the intervention	50.60 (1.30)	49.42 (1.61)	50.25 (1.36)	0.17	0.83
	After the intervention	42.31 (1.33)	43.05 (1.19)	48.31 (1.73)	5.16	0.007
Intragroup comparison	t value	5.61	3.83	1.21
	value^b	<0.001	0.001	0.23
	Effect size (Cohen’s d)	0.94	0.64	0.20

BRT: Benson’s relaxation technique; MT: Music therapy^aOne-way ANOVA test;^b Paired samples t-test.