Effectiveness of Patient Group Meetings for Postoperative Patients with Defecatory Dysfunction : Table 3

Table 3: Scores of defecatory dysfunction at pre-test and post-test.
Mean(Standard deviation)
†paired t test.

	Group	Pre-test	Post-test	p value†	Effect size (d)
Fecal continence and passage ( range 8 – 40 )	Participant	23.8 (7.4)	22.2 (7.3)	.150	0.22
Fecal continence and passage ( range 8 – 40 )	Control	23.9 (7.9)	23.8 (6.4)	.947	0.01
Keeping sense of want to do defecate ( range 4 – 20 )	Participant	12.1 (3.2)	11.4 (3.0)	.209	0.14
Keeping sense of want to do defecate ( range 4 – 20 )	Control	10.8 (4.0)	11.5 (3.2)	.222	0.19