Table 1.

Descriptives of patient sample and t‐tests comparing VS patients with and without facial paresis

	Patients without facial paresis M (SD)	Patients with facial paresis M (SD)	M difference [95% CI]	t	P
HBG	1.32 (0.57)	3.88 (1.13)	2.56 [2.03, 3.09]	9.88	<.001
Time since diagnosis	5.22 (3.56)	6.85 (5.40)	1.63 [−1.07, 4.33]	1.22	.230
Age	54.61 (8.31)	53.38 (7.55)	1.23 [−3.43, 5.89]	0.53	.931
Education level EQF	5 (1.98)	4.95 (1.50)	.05 [−1.01, 1.10]	0.09	.931

Abbreviations: EQF, European Qualifications Framework; HBG, House Brackman Grade.