Table 1.
COWS score and VAS (visual analogue scale) score (mean ± SD) of the groups during the study
| Groups | VAS score |
COWS score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour 0 | Hour 1 | Hour 6 | Hour 24 | Hour 0 | Hour 1 | Hour 6 | Hour 24 | |
| Group 1 (mean ± SD) | 8.58 ± 0.74 | 7.14 ± 0.31 | 5.88 ± 0.69 | 4.59 ± 0.74 | 16.94 ± 2.71 | 2.91 ± 1.33 | 7.05 ± 1.93 | 12.52 ± 3.29 |
| Group 2 (mean ± SD) | 8.70 ± 0.93 | 7.22 ± 0.47 | 4.47 ± 0.73 | 2.67 ± 0.53 | 18.26 ± 3.40 | 8.47 ± 2.25 | 3.02 ± 1.16 | 7.00 ± 1.68 |
| P | 0.621 | 0.550 | 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.095 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
COWS: Clinical opioid withdrawal score; SD: Standard deviation