Table 3.
Assessment of wound among study subjects.
| Variables | NS |
DW |
χ2 | df | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Wound closure | |||||
| Primary closure | 31 (62.0) | 33 (70.2) | 1.411 | 2 | 0.494 |
| Delayed primary closure | 14 (28.0) | 12 (25.5) | |||
| Split thickness skin graft | 5 (10.0) | 2 (4.3) | |||
| Wound infection | |||||
| Absent | 28 (56.0) | 31 (66.0) | |||
| Present | 22 (44.0) | 16 (34.0) | 1.008 | 1 | 0.315 |
| RR 0.774, 95% CI 0.466–1.283 | |||||
| Wound healing | |||||
| Two weeks | 29 (58.0) | 30 (63.8) | 0.960 | 2 | 0.619 |
| Four weeks | 15 (30.0) | 14 (29.8) | |||
| Eight weeks | 6 (12.0) | 3 (6.4) | |||
| Time to wound healing (weeks) | |||||
| Mean ± SD | 3.1 ± 1.8 | 2.7 ± 1.5 | −0.862 | 0.389* | |
| Median (range) | 2.0 (2.0–8.0) | 2.0 (2.0–8.0) |
*
Mann-Whitney U test applied.