Table 1 Psychosocial factors for the whole intervention group
From: Behavioral interventions for coronary heart disease patients
Before intervention | After intervention | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | mean | SD | mean | SD | p | |
Type A Behavior (20-80) | 30 | 47,4 | 9,3 | 40,7 | 8.6 | < 0,0001 |
Type D Behavior (0-56) | 30 | 27,9 | 10,0 | 23,2 | 8.9 | 0,004 |
Sense of Coherence (13-91) | 30 | 54,2 | 6,9 | 57,4 | 6.6 | 0.01 |
HAD scale | ||||||
Depression (0-23) | 30 | 5,6 | 3,8 | 5,1 | 4,2 | n.s. |
Anxiety (0-23) | 30 | 9,2 | 4,5 | 7,4 | 4,6 | 0,0006 |
Ladder of Life | ||||||
Life now (1-10) | 30 | 5.9 | 2,1 | 6,9 | 2,0 | 0,008 |
Life in the past (1-10) | 30 | 5,6 | 2,5 | 5,3 | 2,5 | n.s |
Life in the future (1-10) | 30 | 7,8 | 1,8 | 8,0 | 1,3 | n.s. |