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. 2024 Aug 26;24:376. doi: 10.1186/s12886-024-03642-z

Table 2.

Ocular symptom scores, OSDI, BUT, CFS, SIT, meibum quality and meibum expressibility at each visit for both groups

Clinical parameters	Treatment	Severity score (mean ± SD)
Clinical parameters	Treatment	Baseline	4 weeks	12 weeks
Ocular symptom scores	Hot towel	7.85 ± 2.81	6.22 ± 2.51^*	5.28 ± 2.37^*
Ocular symptom scores	Eye masks	8.86 ± 3.18	4.79 ± 2.37^{* △}	2.91 ± 2.09^{* △}
OSDI	Hot towel	25.89 ± 13.34	21.63 ± 13.51^*	19.24 ± 11.55^*
OSDI	Eye masks	27.03 ± 13.71	13.31 ± 9.53^{* △}	6.28 ± 5.51^{* △}
BUT (seconds)	Hot towel	2.90 ± 1.71	3.22 ± 2.01^*	3.24 ± 2.36^*
BUT (seconds)	Eye masks	2.67 ± 1.69	3.73 ± 2.19^*	5.02 ± 3.03^{* △}
CFS	Hot towel	1.94 ± 3.09	1.76 ± 2.33^*	1.35 ± 2.51^*
CFS	Eye masks	1.76 ± 2.41	0.82 ± 1.79^{* △}	0.45 ± 1.34^{* △}
SIT (mm)	Hot towel	10.26 ± 9.34	9.01 ± 7.25	9.37 ± 7.06
SIT (mm)	Eye masks	11.26 ± 9.02	11.24 ± 8.32	12.52 ± 8.83
Meibum quality	Hot towel	9.37 ± 6.20	8.47 ± 5.29^*	8.07 ± 5.35^*
Meibum quality	Eye masks	10.35 ± 5.69	8.88 ± 4.29^*	5.97 ± 4.24^{* △}
Meibum expressibility	Hot towel	1.24 ± 0.69	0.90 ± 0.72^*	0.62 ± 0.60^*
Meibum expressibility	Eye masks	1.24 ± 0.79	0.86 ± 0.68^*	0.27 ± 0.48^{* △}

OSDI ocular surface disease index, BUT tear break-up time, CFS corneal fluorescein staining, SIT Schirmer test without anesthesia

^*Compared with before treatment, P < 0.05

^△compared with the control group, P < 0.05