Table 1.

Demographic and surgical characteristics of the paediatric patients between individual cartoon video group and control group

	Individual cartoon video (n=40)	Control (n=40)	P value
Age (years)*	5.75±1.21	5.68±1.58	0.812
Gender (male) (n (%))*	17 (42.5)	23 (57.5)	0.18
Height (cm)*	114.43±9.24	108.10±11.92	0.319
Weight (kg)*	21.47±6.18	21.63±5.26	0.271
Surgery length (min)*	34.45±12.07	34.63±12.20	0.596
Anaesthesia length (min)*	47.35±15.16	46.23±14.09	0.691
Surgery (n (%))†			0.875
Adenoidectomy	15 (37.5)	17 (42.5)
Tonsillectomy	10 (25)	10 (25)
Adenoidectomy+tonsillectomy	15 (37.5)	13 (32.5)

Data are presented as frequency (percentage) or mean±SD (SD).

*Two independent samples t test.

†χ² test.