Table 4a: Scores of QOL at pre-test and post-test: global health status/ QOL, five functional scales
QOL: Global health status, PF2: Physical functioning, RF2: Role functioning, EF: Emotional funcyioning, CF: Cognitive functioning, SF: Social functioning
Mean (Standard deviation)
†paired t test.
| Group | Pre-test | Post-test | p value† | Effect size (d) |
| QOL | Participant | 71.3 (20.3) | 78.1 (17.4) | .208 | 0.40 |
| Control | 71.8 (17.8) | 70.9 (13.4) | .851 | 0.06 |
| PF2 | Participant | 92.9 ( 9.5) | 95.2 ( 7.4) | .206 | 0.27 |
| Control | 90.9 (12.2) | 89.5 (15.2) | .683 | 0.10 |
| RF2 | Participant | 85.2 (16.9) | 86.2 (15.3) | .785 | 0.06 |
| Control | 73.0 (21.8) | 71.0 (19.3) | .613 | 0.10 |
| EF | Participant | 90.0 (12.6) | 88.9 (17.0) | .828 | 0.07 |
| Control | 75.0 (17.0) | 77.3 (13.1) | .569 | 0.15 |
| CF | Participant | 81.5 (15.9) | 83.3 (15.0) | .552 | 0.12 |
| Control | 70.8 (33.0) | 68.8 (13.7) | .857 | 0.08 |
| SF | Participant | 84.2 (20.2) | 94.4 (11.4) | .017 | 0.62 |
| Control | 85.5 (20.7) | 87.6 (17.1) | .797 | 0.11 |