Impact of problem management-guided health education with positive incentive nursing after rectal cancer surgery

Table 4 Mood state scores before and after intervention

Items	Time	Experimental group (n = 40)	Control group (n = 40)	t value	P value
Nervous-anxiety	Before	21.04 ± 3.89	20.96 ± 3.94	0.091	0.927
	After	8.14 ± 1.82a	11.69 ± 1.95a	8.417	< 0.001
Depressed-dispirited	Before	40.25 ± 4.84	39.81 ± 4.96	0.402	0.689
	After	13.52 ± 2.47a	16.98 ± 2.58a	6.127	< 0.001
Anger-hostility	Before	19.02 ± 2.87	18.73 ± 3.01	0.441	0.660
	After	6.15 ± 1.52a	8.98 ± 1.67a	7.926	< 0.001
Tired-slow	Before	15.05 ± 2.08	14.92 ± 2.12	0.277	0.783
	After	5.24 ± 1.28a	7.18 ± 1.35a	6.595	< 0.001
Confusion-confusion	Before	16.38 ± 2.15	16.10 ± 2.25	0.569	0.571
	After	6.89 ± 1.30a	8.52 ± 1.49a	5.213	< 0.001
Energy-energy	Before	9.08 ± 3.14	8.89 ± 3.20	0.268	0.789
	After	17.52 ± 1.68a	13.24 ± 1.82a	10.929	< 0.001

^aP < 0.05. P calculated compared with the condition prior to care in this group. Data are presented as mean ± SD.