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EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS 35<br />

Figure 2.<br />

Interaction effect (Study 2: Nurses).<br />

TABLE 6<br />

Descriptive statistics for exhaustion scores exploring the interaction term (Study 2)<br />

Exposed/involved group<br />

(n = 15)<br />

Not exposed/not involved group<br />

(n = 16)<br />

Preintervention<br />

(Time 1)<br />

Postintervention<br />

(Time 2)<br />

Preintervention<br />

(Time 1)<br />

Postintervention<br />

(Time 2)<br />

Mean exhaustion 20.5 17.4 18.7 20.8<br />

scores (range 0 – 48) (SD = 7.8) (SD = 7.2) (SD = 6.4) (SD = 5.8)<br />

exhaustion scores preintervention, F(1, 30) = 0.43, p = .52. After the<br />

intervention, the scores for the group not involved in the in intervention<br />

had risen, though not significantly, t = – 1.5, p = .15; F(1, 15) = 1.5,<br />

p = .24, while the mean exhaustion score for the group involved in the<br />

intervention had dropped, though again not significantly, t = 1.74,<br />

p = .10; F(1, 14) = 3.10, p = .10. After the intervention the group

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