. 2018 Dec 27;12:151–158. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S178118

Table 3.

SKT subtest scores of OG and CG before and after surgery (mean ± SD)

SKT	Presurgery			24 hours postsurgery			2 weeks postsurgery			6 weeks postsurgery			3 months postsurgery

	OG	CG	P-value^**	OG	CG	P-value^**	OG	CG	P-value^**	OG	CG	P-value^**	OG	CG	P-value^**

I	13.4±3.8	10.3±2.7	0.001	12.4±3.1	11.4±2.7	0.236	11.6±2.6^*	11.0±2.6	0.342	11.6±2.3^*	9.8±2.6	0.006	11.0±2.2^*	10.3±2.3	0.235
II	3.1±1.2	3.1±1.6	0.797	3.0±1.6	2.6±1.6	0.297	2.4±1.6	1.9±1.4^*	0.219	1.7±1.2^*	1.9±1.3^*	0.587	1.8±1.9^*	1.7.0±1.2^*	0.659
III	8.1±2.3	7.1±2.2	0.114	6.7±1.9^*	5.9±1.4^*	0.083	6.0±1.4^*	5.9±1.3^*	0.649	6.1±1.2^*	5.5±1.2^*	0.077	6.0±1.4^*	5.8±1.6^*	0.587
IV	18.2±4.5	16.4±4.2	0.064	16.8±4.5	14.8±3.7^*	0.065	14.8±3.3^*	14.3±3.8^*	0.597	14.2±3.8^*	13.7±3.6^*	0.603	15.2±6.3^*	13.5±3.4^*	0.221
V	16.0±4.8	13.7±4.2	0.001	15.3±3.3	14.2±2.6	0.155	15.0±3.7	12.4±2.4	0.005	14.3±3.4	12.4±2.3	0.013	13.5±3.5^*	11.8±2.4^*	0.054
VI	10.4±2.6	8.9±2.1	0.021	12.5±3.4^*	10.1±2.2^*	0.004	11.4±2.6	10.1±3.0^*	0.076	11.7±2.9^*	10.3±2.0^*	0.028	11.3±2.0	10.5±2.1^*	0.135
VII	15.4±4.2	11.9±2.5	<0.001	15.4±3.5	12.2±2.5	<0.001	13.8±3.9^*	10.9±2.7^*	0.002	14.2±2.8	11.6±2.3	<0.001	14.0±2.5^*	11.2±2.6^*	<0.001
VIII	1.4±1.1	2.0±1.4	0.117	2.2±1.5^*	1.8±1.5	0.350	0.9±1.1^*	1.0±1.1^*	0.707	1.1±1.2	1.3±1.4^*	0.715	0.7±0.7^*	0.8±1.1^*	0.513
IX	0.1±0.3	0.1±0.3	0.870	0.2±0.5	0.2±0.4	0.705	0.0±0.4	0.2±0.3	0.44	0.1±0.3	0.1±0.3	0.859	0.0±0.2	0.0±0.2	0.862

Notes:

Comparison of the postsurgery SKT scores to the corresponding presurgery SKT scores of the same group, P<0.05.

^**

P-values as comparison between OG and CG.

Abbreviations: CG, control group; OG, observational group; SKT, Syndrom Kurz Test.