Research Article
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 | valuea | 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 | | | valueb | <0.001 | 0.001 | 0.23 | | | Effect size (Cohen’s d) | 0.94 | 0.64 | 0.20 | | |
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BRT: Benson’s relaxation technique; MT: Music therapyaOne-way ANOVA test;b Paired samples t-test.
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