Promoting action control and coping planning to improve hand hygiene

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Means and Standard Deviations (SDs) of hand hygiene, action control and coping planning at pre-test and at post-test, and comparison between experiment conditions

Measurement time	Variable	Condition	M	SD	T	p	D
Pre-test	Hand hygiene behaviour	Control	1.46	0.88	−2.662	.008	−.34
Pre-test	Hand hygiene behaviour	Experimental	1.84	1.32	−2.662	.008
	Action control	Control	2.82	0.79	2.491	.013	.33
	Action control	Experimental	2.54	0.90	2.491	.013
	Coping planning	Control	2.34	0.92	.562	.575	.07
	Coping planning	Experimental	2.27	0.95	.562
Post-test	Hand hygiene behaviour	Control	1.74	1.29	−1.700	.090	-.23
Post-test	Hand hygiene behaviour	Experimental	2.05	1.39	−1.700
	Action control	Control	2.72	0.86	−.843	.400	−.20
	Action control	Experimental	2.89	0.84	−.843	.400
	Coping planning	Control	2.33	1.00	−1.064	.288	−.13
	Coping planning	Experimental	2.46	0.94	−1.064

Note. Longitudinal sample N = 242. Listwise deletion. Bold numbers are used for variables for which the comparison statistics are p (2-tailed) < .05

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