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Table 3.

Actual treatment received up to 12 months after first visit to the gynaecology outpatient clinic [Values are numbers (%) unless otherwise stated]

Intervention Control Pre‐trial P‐values C vs. PT
n = 184 n = 179 n = 206 C vs. I
Actual treatment 0.08 0.0004
 Hysterectomy 98 (53) 88 (49) 107 (52) 0.4 0.6
 Minor surgery or LNG‐IUS 30 (16) 46 (26) 23 (11) 0.03 0.0002
 Other 54 (29) 44 (25) 74 (36) 0.3 0.02
No treatment and no visit to outpatient clinic 2 (1) 1 (1) 2 (1)
Number of surgical procedures used within 1 year [mean (SE)] 0.70 (0.04) 0.73 (0.04) 0.61 (0.04) 0.6 0.01

I = intervention group, C =control group, PT = pre‐trial group, LNG‐IUS = hormonal (levonorgestrel) intrauterine system.