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

Table 3 Primary analysis: T-test comparison of post-intervention psychosocial scores of women participants, in intervention vs. control groups: Mean, standard deviation and sample size (N)

Psychosocial scores ^a	Post-intervention psychosocial scores
Psychosocial scores ^a	Control	Intervention	p-value
Psychosocial distress score (HSCL-25)
Anxiety sub-score	15.3 ± 4.7 (53)	15.8 ± 4.4 (68)	0.561
Depression sub-score	20.4 ± 7.0 (53)	21.0 ± 6.6 (68)	0.658
Total score	35.7 ± 11.4 (53)	36.7 ± 10.7 (68)	0.608
Wellbeing score (MHC-SF)
Total score	40.2 ± 12.5 (54)	45.8 ± 10.5 (68)	0.008
Self-efficacy score
Infant care sub-score	10.9 ± 1.6 (38)	11.2 ± 1.7 (59)	0.446
Self-care sub-score	8.4 ± 2.0 (52)	9.2 ± 2.5 (68)	0.049
Total score	19.4 ± 3.2 (38)	20.5 ± 3.7 (59)	0.130
Infant stimulation engagement
Total score	1.4 ± 2.0 (37)	1.9 ± 2.0 (59)	0.241

^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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