Quality of life, sense of coherence and experiences with three different treatments in patients with psychological distress in primary care: a mixed-methods study

Table 2 Descriptive statistics at baseline and after eight weeks and change between baseline and follow up for integrative treatment (IT), therapeutic acupuncture (TA) and conventional treatment (CT)

Outcomes	IT (n = 40)			TA (n = 40)			CT (n = 40)			IT-TA-CT	IT-CT	TA-CT	IT-TA
	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median	p-value¹	p-value²	p-value²	p-value²
SF36 PCS
Baseline	45,07	11,53	46,88	43,80	10,34	42,77	46,85	9,25	46,49	,384
8 weeks	46,70	11,10	50,45	47,13	9,30	47,31	46,58	10,51	46,77	,881
Δ	1,63	9,99	,56	3,33	8,13	1,59	-,27	9,26	,34	,292
Δ p-value³	,333			,026			,968
SF36 MCS
Baseline	27,62	13,64	24,47	28,48	13,64	31,27	27,13	12,43	27,60	,896
8 weeks	46,14	9,35	46,14	43,41	11,90	43,58	32,65	14,08	32,38	,001	,001	,001	,476
Δ	18,52	11,84	18,35	14,93	12,34	11,98	5,52	13,59	5,27	,001	,001	,002	,163
Δ p-value³	,001			,001			,011			,001	,001	,002	,163
SOC
Baseline	55,38	13,70	56,00	52,15	11,59	54,00	53,08	13,80	51,50	,533
8 weeks	68,13	9,61	68,01	64,84	10,42	64,95	56,25	13,32	56,41	,001	,001	,001	,195
Δ	12,75	11,35	10,00	12,69	10,85	11,00	3,18	11,52	2,50	,001	,001	,001	,954
Δ p-value³	,001			,001			,091

SF-36: 36-item Short Form-36 health survey. SF-36 Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) and Sense of Coherence (SOC) ¹Nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test, ²Mann-Whitney-U test; p-values less than 0.017 (Bonferroni correction of p-values for multiplicity) are shown in bold, p-values for Mann–Whitney-U are shown only where Kruskal-Wallis tests were significant; ³ Wilcoxon signed rank test.
Between-group comparisons of baseline scores, 8-week scores and baseline to 8-week change (Δ), as well as within-group change are shown.

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