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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
The Overall Impact of Time upon the Mean Severity and Distress
scores of all Physical and Psychological Symptoms for Men in the
Experimental and Control Groups
In men with pregnant partners one-way ANOVA test reveals
significant increase in the mean severity and distress scores for the
majority of physical symptoms over the 1 st and 3 rd trimesters of
pregnancy. There is a significant decrease in the severity and
distress scores for these symptoms in the postpartum period
(Tables 11, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28, 35, 36) and (Figures 2, 3). However,
the distress scores for three of these symptoms whilst showing
similar trends were non-significant. The severity and distress scores
for many of the psychological symptoms also show a statistically
significant increase between the 1 st and 3 rd trimesters (Tables 13,
14, 21, 22, 29, 30) and (Figures 4, 5). However, six symptoms
although showing a tendency to increase are all non-significant over
these periods By contrast for those in the control group the severity
and distress scores for physical symptoms (Tables 15, 16, 23, 24,
31, 32, 37, 38) and (Figures 6, 7) reveal no statistically significant
differences over 3 and 6-month comparative time periods. However,
two of these symptoms show a significant decrease between the
two periods. There are also no statistically significant differences for
the severity and distress of psychological symptoms across both
time periods (Tables 17, 18, 25, 26, 33, 34) and (Figures 8, 9).
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