Spiritual Therapy to Improve the Spiritual Well-Being of Iranian Women with Breast Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 2

Mean baseline and posttrial spiritual well-being score by group (𝑛=65).

Measure	Intervention group 𝑛=34				Control group 𝑛=31				Effect size	𝑃 value
	Baseline		After trial		Baseline		After trial
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
FACIT-Sp12 Scores
Meaning	10.21	2.96	12.09	1.50	9.45	3.15	9.55	3.14	0.33	<0.001
Peace	7.97	2.44	11.41	1.46	7.41	3.09	7.54	2.46	0.74	<0.001
Faith	11.59	2.90	13.74	1.75	11.06	3.08	11.45	2.33	0.31	<0.001
Total	29.76	6.63	37.24	3.52	27.93	7.11	28.55	5.32	0.61	<0.001
QLQ C-30 functional scales
Global QOL/general health	44.37	13.03	68.63	10.86	37.90	22.44	39.25	15.98	0.78	<0.001
Physical functioning	71.76	12.71	63.60	19.53	62.58	22.15	61.94	19.79	0.44	0.02
Role functioning	61.11	25.82	76.96	20.10	67.20	25.63	61.83	26.94	0.49	0.01
Emotional functioning	44.14	20.49	65.44	13.31	42.47	23.70	36.56	21.80	0.67	<0.001
Cognitive functioning	53.15	25.10	68.14	17.09	55.91	25.29	53.23	24.12	0.49	0.005
Social functioning	49.10	27.20	71.08	19.80	45.70	28.20	42.47	26.11	0.63	<0.001
QLQ C-30 symptom scales/items
Fatigue	59.46	19.28	37.58	17.51	53.05	24.79	60.57	23.10	0.61	<0.001
Nausea and vomiting	25.68	27.10	18.63	18.24	26.88	24.97	23.12	19.08	0.53	0.03
Pain	45.95	22.36	29.90	16.80	45.16	23.25	48.92	21.05	0.62	<0.001
Dyspnea	19.82	29.87	18.63	18.69	29.03	31.90	33.33	24.34	0.10	0.83
Sleep disturbance	45.95	31.77	36.27	26.42	47.31	35.25	54.84	39.01	0.43	0.03
Appetite loss	37.84	27.40	30.39	25.11	33.33	28.54	38.71	35.58	0.02	0.20
Constipation	32.43	33.78	32.35	30.13	24.73	35.45	34.41	34.94	0.01	1.00
Diarrhea	14.41	25.50	13.73	26.10	17.20	24.14	15.05	24.09	0.01	0.42
Financial impact	66.67	34.24	43.14	29.04	66.67	28.54	68.82	30.95	0.39	<0.001