Reflective mindfulness and emotional regulation training to enhance nursing students’ self-awareness, understanding, and regulation: a mixed method randomized controlled trial

Table 4 Comparing the studied groups’ cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression facets pre- and post-intervention

	Intervention group (N = 20)			Control group (N = 20)			St. “t” test	P (significance)
	Mean	SD	Range	Mean	SD	Range	St. “t” test	P (significance)
Cognitive Reappraisal facet
Pre	13.0	2.15	8–18	13.0	1.94	9–16	0.0	1.0
Post	38.1	1.72	34–41	10.3	1.65	7–12	52.06	< 0.001 *
Paired “t”	42.3			6.89
P (significance)	< 0.001 *			< 0.001 *
Expressive Suppression facet
Pre	22.0	2.45	18–72	21.75	2.17	18–26	0.41	0.68
Post	6.55	1.23	4–9	23.60	2.06	20–27	31.7	< 0.001 *
Paired “t”	28.4			6.13
P (significance)	< 0.001 *			< 0.001 *

N, number; SD, standard deviation; St “t” test, Student “t” test, statistically significant P value *p < 0.001

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