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

Table 2

Comparison of the increase in the score of ostomy self-care performance in the two groups of the study.

Variables	Study groups						Sig
	Intervention group			Control group
Increase in the score of ostomy self-care performance	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median
1 day after intervention	6.27	3.32	6.50	3.04	3.42	2.00	0.000
7 days after intervention	10.46	6.02	12.00	7.50	3.48	8.00	0.035
30 days after intervention	16.42	7.48	18.00	10.27	5.77	8.50	0.002

SD: standard deviation; Sig: significance level.