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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2018 Dec;37(12):1535–1541. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000001741

Table 4:

Ocular pain symptoms and artificial tear use reported by those with persistent post-surgical pain after cataract surgery (defined as a Dry Eye Questionnaire-5 score of 6 or greater) and those without

PPP
(n=41)
WoPPP
(n=78)
P-value
Average ocular pain over 1 week recall in (worse) operated eye, mean (SD) 1.73 (2.2) 0.15 (0.7) <0.0005
Spontaneous ocular burning in (worse) operated eye, mean (SD) 1.15 (2.0) 0.04 (0.3) 0.001
Sensitivity to wind, mean (SD) 1.56 (2.6) 0.15 (0.6) 0.001
Sensitivity to light, mean (SD) 3.51 (3.5) 0.85 (1.9) <0.0005
Uses of artificial tears per day, mean (SD) 2.05 (1.9) 0.24 (0.6) <0.0005

PPP: Persistent Post-surgical Pain, WoPPP: Without Persistent Post-surgical Pain, SD: Standard Deviation