A comprehensive health-promoting neighborhood intervention to improve health care seeking behavior among reproductive age Iranian women

Table 3 Comparison of mean and standard deviation of HCSB and PHM constructs before and after the intervention in the experimental group

HPM constructs	Group	Before intervention M ± SD	After intervention M ± SD	p value
Perceived benefits	Experimental	30.28 ± 5.97	32.11 ± 5.19	< 0.001^†
	Control	31.93 ± 5.86	31.32 ± 5.73	0.29
	p value	0.42	0.36
Perceived barriers	Experimental	43.95 ± 9.21	41.77 ± 9.36	< 0.001^†
	Control	45.45 ± 9.33	46.11 ± 9.54	0.06
	p value	0.31	0.004^*
Perceived self-efficacy	Experimental	28.96 ± 4.35	30.27 ± 5.08	< 0.001^†
	Control	28.46 ± 5.22	28.13 ± 5.77	0.11
	p value	0.51	0.01^*
Activity-related affect (positive feelings)	Experimental	12.38 ± 2.13	12.83 ± 1.50	0.01^†
	Control	12.52 ± 2.03	12.76 ± 1.78	0.08
	p value	0.67	0.77
Activity-related affect (negative feelings)	Experimental	26.90 ± 6.93	25.93 ± 6.60	0.003^†
	Control	28.15 ± 6.27	28.35 ± 6.13	0.51
	p value	0.13	0.01^*
Interpersonal influences	Experimental	55.92 ± 7.69	60.37 ± 8.79	< 0.001^†
	Control	56.58 ± 8.67	56.87 ± 7.83	0.44
	p value	0.61	0.009^*
Situational influences	Experimental	38.13 ± 4.90	39.71 ± 5.06	< 0.001^†
	Control	38.88 ± 4.86	38.37 ± 4.78	0.06
	p value	0.33	0.08
Competing demands and preferences	Experimental	37.30 ± 7.58	34.51 ± 6.97	< 0.001^†
	Control	37.46 ± 6.89	37.79 ± 7.56	0.24
	p value	0.72	0.005^*
Commitment to plan of action	Experimental	27.20 ± 4.78	29.02 ± 4.13	< 0.001^†
	Control	27.17 ± 4.90	27.53 ± 4.41	0.39
	p value	0.88	0.01^*
HCSB	Experimental	17.23 ± 3.07	18.27 ± 2.61	< 0.001^†
	Control	17.01 ± 3.27	17.10 ± 2.93	0.15
	p value	0.40	0.001^*

Mean values were significantly different from those of the control group (independent-samples t test): ^*p < 0.05.
Mean values were significantly different from those before the intervention (paired-samples t test): ^†p < 0.05.

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