Feasibility and patient satisfaction with smoking cessation interventions for prevention of healthcare-associated infections in inpatients

Table 4 Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) mean scores at 1 week and 3 months

	1 week			3 months
Scale	Intervention group avg. score (SD^a) (n = 16)	Usual care avg. score (SD^a) (n = 21)	p-value^*	Intervention group avg. score (SD^a) (n = 11)	Usual care avg. score (SD^a) (n = 15)	p-value^*
Distressed	2.1 (1.4)	2.2 (1.3)	0.695	2.4 (1.5)	2.2 (1.3)	0.771
Upset	2.1 (1.3)	2.3 (1.3)	0.718	2.4 (1.6)	2.5 (1.4)	0.862
Strong	3.0 (1.2)	3.2 (1.2)	0.638	3.4 (1.2)	2.9 (1.4)	0.418
Enthusiastic	2.6 (1.3)	2.9 (1.2)	0.489	2.9 (1.2)	3.0 (1.3)	0.859
Irritable	2.4 (1.6)	2.5 (1.5)	0.869	2.5 (1.5)	2.4 (1.4)	0.925
Determined	3.8 (1.1)	3.2 (1.1)	0.134	3.7 (1.3)	3.1 (1.3)	0.269

^a SD standard deviation
^*Data analyzed using t-tests
PANAS scores are measured on an agreement scale of 1 – 5; 1 = “strongly disagree”. 2 = “disagree”, 3 = “neutral” 4 = “agree”, 5 = “strongly agree”

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