2.9. Statistical Analysis
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software was used to analyze the data (IBM SPSS v.26, IBM Corp., Armonk, NY: USA). The Shapiro‒Wilk test is used to examine the distributional homogeneity of a sample. For the study of categorical data, the chi-square test was utilized. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA): Bonferroni's multiple comparison tests were performed to assess the main effect between group factors at the different time points, within-group factors throughout the time point, and the interaction between time and group across the time point. In addition, the post hoc analysis utilized Bonferroni's multiple comparison tests to determine which group was superior to the others. The significance level alpha was set at 95%.