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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