Effect of positive emotion training and warm acupuncture on negative emotion and facial nerve in intractable facial paralysis

Table 3 Comparison of anxiety and depression symptom scores between the two groups of patients, mean ± SD

	SAS score (scores)		SDS score (scores)
	Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment
Control group (n = 60)	58.80 ± 3.91	44.32 ± 1.99	59.07 ± 2.36	44.37 ± 2.46
Observation group (n = 60)	58.32 ± 3.42	34.90 ± 2.01	59.13 ± 2.53	34.22 ± 2.10
t	0.721	25.833	-0.149	24.330
P value	0.472	< 0.001	0.882	< 0.001

This table displays the changes in anxiety (Self-Rating Anxiety Scale) and depression (Self-Rating Depression Scale) symptom scores analyzed by independent samples t-tests. The data reveals that while pre-treatment scores were similar (P > 0.05), post-treatment scores were significantly lower in the observation group compared to the control group for both Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (t = 25.833) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (t = 24.330) scales (P < 0.001). SAS: Self-Rating Anxiety Scale; SDS: Self-Rating Depression Scale.