The Effects of Education Based on the Nursing Process on Ostomy Self-Care Knowledge and Performance of Elderly Patients with Surgical Stoma

Table 1

The comparison of the mean score of ostomy self-care knowledge between the intervention and control groups after the completion of the programme.

Variables	Study groups						Sig
	Intervention group			Control group
Increase in the score of ostomy self-care knowledge	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median
One day after intervention	4.65	3.11	4.00	4.00	1.74	4.00	0.356
7 days after intervention	12.81	3.14	12.00	7.15	3.38	7.00	0.000
30 days after intervention	16.46	2.60	17.00	9.08	2.92	8.00	0.000

SD: standard deviation; Sig: significance level.