Table 5.
Comparisons of the type of body-contouring surgery undergone by the participants with the (1) public's view of patient's appearance after surgery, (2) likelihood of repeating the surgery, and (3) degree of patient's satisfaction of the surgery (categorical variable)
| Type of body-contouring surgery | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truncoplasty | Abdominoplasty | Mastoplasty | Brachioplasty | Thigh lift | Liposuction | Multiple surgeries | Total | Value | Pearson χ2 symptom Significance (2 sided) |
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| Public view of appearance after surgery | Better | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 9.154 | 0.518 |
| Worse | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| No change | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | |||
| Not sure | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||
| Would you repeat the surgery if you had the chance | Yes | 5 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 35 | 10.7 | 0.381 |
| No | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Maybe | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||
| Degree of satisfaction of surgery | Satisfied | 5 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 27 | 13.138 | 0.216 |
| Partially satisfied |
0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | |||
| Unsatisfied | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||