Table 2.
Descriptive and inferential statistics of sweating severity before and after two weeks of administration of oxybutynin or placebo
| Oxybutynin (n = 66) | Placebo (n = 74) | Between-group statistics | ||||||
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| Pre | Post | Comparison within group | Pre | Post | Comparison within group | Pre; comparison between groups | Post; comparison between groups | |
| Statistics | X2 (df = 6, N = 66) = 18.71, P = 0.005 | X2 (df = 6, N = 74) = 50.23, P = 0.000 | X2 (df = 2, N = 140) = 2.81, P = 0.25 | X2 (df = 3, N = 140) = 9.07, P = 0.03 | ||||
| Severity of sweating | ||||||||
| Grade 1 | 0 (0%) | 36 (54.5%) | 0 (0%) | 26 (35.1%) | ||||
| Grade 2 | 27 (40.9%) | 25 (37.9%) | 38 (51.4%) | 30 (40.5%) | ||||
| Grade 3 | 21 (31.8%) | 4 (6.1%) | 24 (32.4%) | 13 (17.6%) | ||||
| Grade 4 | 18 (27.3%) | 1 (1.5%) | 12 (16.2%) | 5 (6.8%) | ||||
| 66 (100%) | 66 (100%) | 74 (100%) | 74 (100%) | |||||