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. 2020 Nov 22;18(11):951–960. doi: 10.18502/ijrm.v13i11.7962

Table 2.

Cycle characteristics of the mock and control groups


MOCK (n = 103) Control (n = 92) P-value Relative risk (95% CI)
Protocol
Long agonist 4/103 (3.88) 01/92 (1.09) 0.25 3.5728 (0.4066-31.3931)
Antagonist 99/103 (96.12) 91/92 (98.91) 0.20 0.9717 (0.9296-1.0158
Insemination
IVF 47/103 (45.63) 37/92 (40.22) 0.44 1.1346 (0.8187-1.5725)
ICSI 32/103 (31.07) 37/92 (40.22) 0.18 0.7725 (0.5280-1.1302)
Split 24/103 (23.30) 18/92 (19.57) 0.52 1.1909 ( 0.6922-2.0490)
Fresh 5//97 (4.85) 09/87 (10.34) 0.16 0.4693 (0.1633-1.3481)
Frozen 92/97 (89.32) 78/87 (89.66) 0.94 0.9963 (0.9035-1.0986)
Number of oocytes obtained* 18 (5-64) 15 (3-41) 0.03
Quality of embryos
Top 85/97 (91.75) 76/87 (87.36) 0.95 1.0031 (0.8991-1.1192)
Average 12/97 (12.37) 11/87 (12.64) 0.95 0.9784 (0.4552-2.1032)
Number of transferred embryos
0 6/103 (5.83) 05/92 (5.43) 0.90 1.0718 (0.3384-3.3954)
1 71/103 (68.93) 60/92 (65.22) 0.58 1.0570 (0.8674-1.2880)
2 26/103 (25.24) 26/92 (28.26) 0.63 0.8932 (0.5609-1.4223)
3 0/103 (0 ) 01/92 (1.09) 0.45 0.2981 (0.0123-7.2284)
Actual transfer
Easy 96/97 (98.97) 87/87 (100) 0.31 0.9897 (0.9698-1.0100)
Difficult 01/97 (1.03) 0/87 (0) 0.54 2.6939 (0.1112-65.2795)
Catheter tip bleeding 04/97 (4.12) 04/87 (4.60) 0.87 0.8969 (0.2313-3.4784)
Catheter tip mucus 07/97 (7.22) 06/87 (6.90) 0.93 1.0464 (0.3657-2.9942)
Consultant 37/97 (38.14) 36/87 (41.38) 0.65 0.9218 (0.6457-1.3161)
Registrar 60/97 (61.86) 51/87 (58.62) 0.65 1.0552 (0.8335-1.3358)
Data presented as n (%). P-value refer to Chi-squared test; when appropriate, P-value < 0.05 was considered as significant. * independent t test, IVF: In vitro fertilisation, ICSI: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection