Preoperative optimization of patient expectations improves long-term outcome in heart surgery patients: results of the randomized controlled PSY-HEART trial.

BMC Med · 2017 · PMC5223324 · PMID 28069021

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highly significantP < 0.001actually significant

2c ) indicated that improvements were highly significant in the EXPECT ( P < 0.001) and the SUPPORT group ( P < 0.01), but not after SMC.

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failed to reach significanceno p-value reported

Comparing the two groups with psychological preoperative interventions, we found a trend in favor of the EXPECT group compared to the SUPPORT group (interaction of the two groups with assessment time F(1, 62.571) = 2.872, P = 0.095), which failed to reach significance.

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