Women’s circles as a culturally safe psychosocial intervention in Guatemalan indigenous communities: a community-led pilot randomised trial

Table 2 Baseline characteristics: T-test comparison of psychosocial scores of women participants, in intervention vs. control groups: Mean, standard deviation and sample size (N)

Psychosocial scores ^a	Psychosocial scores
Psychosocial scores ^a	Control	Intervention	p-value
Psychosocial distress score (HSCL-25)
Anxiety sub-score	15.4 ± 4.5 (66)	16.5 ± 5.0 (81)	0.144
Depression sub-score	20.1 ± 6.7 (66)	22.1 ± 6.9 (81)	0.083
Total score	35.5 ± 10.5 (66)	38.6 ± 11.3 (81)	0.088
Wellbeing score (MHC-SF)
Total score	41.7 ± 12.8 (66)	42.6 ± 12.8 (81)	0.661
Self-efficacy score
Infant care sub-score	11.0 ± 1.6 (49)	10.6 ± 2.1 (66)	0.271
Self-care sub-score	8.0 ± 2.3 (64)	8.0 ± 2.3 (80)	0.890
Total score	18.9 ± 3.2 (48)	18.4 ± 3.9 (66)	0.488
Infant stimulation engagement
Total score	2.8 ± 3.6 (49)	2.7 ± 2.9 (66)	0.818

^aA higher psychosocial distress score (HSCL-25) indicates greater distress; a higher wellbeing score (MHC-SF) indicates greater wellbeing; a higher auto-efficacy score indicates greater self-efficacy; a higher Infant stimulation engagement score indicates greater maternal engagement in infant stimulation activities

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