Table 2: Descriptive statistics results on Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI).
| Measure | Hand massage group (n = 11) | Conversational group (n = 11) | ||||||
| Pre-test | Post-test | Pre-test | Post-test | |||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Neuropsychiatric inventory: agitation | 10.18 | 1.78 | 9.09 | 1.7 | 9.72 | 1.85 | 8.91 | 1.14 |
| Neuropsychiatric inventory: irritability | 9.91 | 1.7 | 8.9 | 1.14 | 9.99 | 1.7 | 9 | 1.09 |
| Neuropsychiatric inventory: motoractivity | 7.18 | 1.4 | 3.63 | 0.81 | 7.82 | 1.25 | 7.45 | 1.21 |
| Neuropsychiatric inventory: diet | 3.54 | 1.44 | 2.36 | 0.81 | 3.27 | 1.55 | 3 | 1.26 |