Effects of remote support courses on parental mental health and child development in autism: A randomized controlled trial

Table 3 Comparisons between two groups on the parenting sense of competence scale before and after the intervention, mean ± SD

Variable	Experimental group (n = 71)	Control group (n = 69)	t	P value
Efficacy
Pre-intervention	26.66 ± 5.88	27.54 ± 5.20	0.931	0.353
Post-intervention	30.65 ± 6.49	28.45 ± 5.64	-2.137	0.034a
t/P value	8.334/< 0.001b	1.907/< 0.001b
Satisfaction
Pre-intervention	32.72 ± 8.17	33.94 ± 6.89	0.957	0.340
Post-intervention	38.18 ± 7.06	35.46 ± 7.01	-2.286	0.024a
t/P value	6.414/< 0.001b	2.508/0.015a
Total score
Pre-intervention	59.38 ± 11.59	61.48 ± 9.94	1.148	-2.634
Post-intervention	68.83 ± 11.23	63.91 ± 10.86	0.253	0.009b
t/P value	8.092/< 0.001b	2.807/0.005b

^aP < 0.05.

^bP< 0.01.