Effectiveness of a Single Education and Counseling Intervention in Reducing Anxiety in Women Undergoing Hysterosalpingography: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 1
Baseline sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of intervention () and control () groups.
Intervention ()
Control ()
value
Sociodemographic information
Age (mean ± SD)
0.75
Marital status, married (%)
75 (71.4)
80 (76.2)
0.62
Italian origin (%)
102 (93.6)
99 (91.7)
0.60
Education (years)
0.65
Primary (%)
23 (21.7)
22 (21.6)
0.42
Secondary (%)
53 (50)
43 (42.2)
0.43
Tertiary (%)
30 (28.3)
37 (36.3)
0.42
Reproductive history
Previous pregnancies (deliveries) (%)
28 (24.7)
31 (29.2)
0.79
Previous extra-uterine pregnancies (%)
2 (1.9)
4 (3.8)
0.44
Previous spontaneous abortions (%)
31 (28.8)
24 (22.6)
0.44
Prior gynaecological surgery
31 (28.4%)
33 (31.7%)
0.60
Positive family psychiatric history
25 (23.1%)
16 (14.81%)
0.10
Pain Perception
0.50
Clinical anxiety cases
Baseline (%)
18 (17.5)
15 (14.4)
0.50
After HSG (%)
16 (14.8)
13 (12)
0.50
Clinical depression cases
Baseline (%)
14 (13.6)
10 (9.4)
0.39
After HSG (%)
7 (6.4)*
5 (4.6)
0.50
HSG: hysterosalpingography.
*Significant reduction between baseline and after HSG in the same group, .
