Effectiveness of Positive Thinking Training Program on Nurses’ Quality of Work Life through Smartphone Applications

Table 2

Means and standard deviation of quality of work life’s dimensions in pretest and posttest of control and intervention group.

Quality of work life dimensions	Pretest	Posttest	value	ANCOVA
				df		value
Home life
Intervention	5.11 ± 19.70	4.16 ± 22.84	<0.001	2	80.80	<0.001
Control	4.63 ± 18.74	4.31 ± 19.14	0.151	1	118.21	<0.001
value	0.23	<0.001
Work design
Intervention	26.10 ± 6.59	30.68 ± 5.39	<0.001	2	77.51	<0.001
Control	26.22 ± 5.28	26.12 ± 5.48	0.682	1	116.70	<0.001
value	0.83	<0.001
Work context
Intervention	59.38 ± 31.86	62.16 ± 12.03	<0.001	2	17.60	<0.001
Control	50.78 ± 13.82	51.18 ± 13.52	0.026	1	14.32	<0.001
value	0.20	<0.001
Work world
Intervention	15.50 ± 3.96	16.60 ± 3.42	0.003	2	125.88	<0.001
Control	14.68 ± 3.88	15.10 ± 3.46	0.05	1	235.65	<0.001
value	0.59	0.08
Total score
Intervention	120.68 ± 34.40	132.28 ± 19.89	<0.001	2	118.31	<0.001
Control	110.42 ± 23.01	111.54 ± 22.43	0.018	1	78.59	<0.001

value = Wilcoxon.
value = ANCOVA.
value = Mann–Whitney.
Significant at the level of .