Table 3: Descriptive statistics of significant results on distress scale.
| Measures | 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 | |
| Distress agitation | 4 | 0.77 | 3.64 | 0.82 | 4.18 | 0.75 | 4 | 0.77 |
| Distress irritability | 4.27 | 0.79 | 3.73 | 0.79 | 4.09 | 0.7 | 3.91 | 0.54 |
| Distress activity | 3.82 | 0.98 | 3.27 | 0.9 | 4.27 | 0.9 | 4 | 0.77 |