Table 5:
Frequency of responses to long-term follow-up survey questions surrounding patient expectation of endoscopic sinus surgery (n=59)
| ‘Strongly disagree’ |
‘Disagree’ | ‘Neither agree or disagree’ |
‘Agree’ | ‘Strongly agree’ |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| 1. Before you had sinus surgery, did you believe this treatment would completely resolve your sinus condition related symptoms? | 0 (0%) | 10 (17%) | 16 (27%) | 26 (44%) | 7 (12%) |
| 2. The resolution of my symptoms following sinus surgery matched my expectations that I had prior to surgery. | 1 (2%) | 10 (17%) | 13 (22%) | 24 (41%) | 11 (19%) |
| 3. Sinus surgery improved the symptoms most important to me. | 2 (3%) | 4 (7%) | 9 (15%) | 27 (46%) | 17 (29%) |
| 4. I was satisfied that I was adequately informed about the issues important to my decision to receive sinus surgery. | 1 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (9%) | 29 (49%) | 24 (41%) |
| 5. If you had to do it again, would you pursue sinus surgery? | 0 (0%) | 1 (2%) | 7 (12%) | 17 (29%) | 34 (58%) |
| 6. I would recommend sinus surgery to someone else who needed it. | 1 (2%) | 2 (3%) | 4 (7%) | 20 (34%) | 32 (54%) |
N, sample size.