Effect of exercise, nutritional, and psychological interventions on postoperative nutritional and mental status of patients with esophageal cancer

Table 3 Comparison of Self-rating Anxiety Scale and Self-rating Depression Scale scores between the two groups

Group	SAS scores		SDS scores
	Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment
Observation group (n = 51)	65.38 ± 5.45	46.12 ± 4.98a	68.79 ± 6.34	51.34 ± 5.42a
Control group (n = 53)	65.13 ± 5.68	58.32 ± 5.11a	68.15 ± 6.69	61.27 ± 5.93a
t	0.231	12.82	0.538	9.574
P value	0.818	< 0.0001	0.592	< 0.0001

^aP < 0.01 vs before treatment in this group.

SAS: Self-rating Anxiety Scale; SDS: Self-rating Depression Scale.