Effect of a Multistage Educational Skill-Based Program on Nurse’s Stress and Anxiety in the Intensive Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 5

Comparisons between trial and control groups in terms of ICU working stress at baseline (time 1), 6 months (time 2), 15 months (time 3), and 21 months (time 4) after the intervention.

Time	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Time 4	Between-group comparison (treatments)	Within-group comparison (time)	Interaction between time and treatments
Group	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)
Control	67.25 (2.85)	81.00 (3.58)	86.68 (3.88)	92.45 (4.62)
Inter. 1	68.28 (2.79)	62.7 (3.24)	50.3 (3.24)	45.98 (3.22)
Inter. 2	67.15 (2.33)	54.75 (2.36)	45.15 (3.25)	32.83 (3.67)
Inter. 3	67.93 (3.30)	55.6 (3.61)	41.55 (4.09)	28.13 (3.63)

M: mean; SD: standard deviation; NS: nonsignificant; inter.: intervention.