TABLE III.

Distribution of Patients According to the Subjective Assessment of Smell at Each Visit by Age Groups.

	Schoolers (Below 12 years old)								Adolescents (Over 12 years old)
Age Groups Visits	Total Number of Patients	Olfactory Scores †						Middle Rank	Total Number of Patients	Olfactory Scores †						Middle Rank
		0	1	2	3	4	5			0	1	2	3	4	5		P Value for the Significance of the Differences Between Age Groups*
Visit No. 1, number of patients (%)	n = 31	1 (3.2)	13 (41.9)	2 (6.5)	15 (48.4)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2.83	n = 48	24 (50.0)	11 (12.5)	6 (14.5)	7 (48.4)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2.32	.000
Visit No. 2, number of patients (%)	n = 31	12 (38.7)	13 (41.9	4 (12.9)	2 (5.5)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	1.84	n = 48	26 (54.2)	13 (27.1)	8 (16.7)	1 (2.1)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2.19	.269
Visit No. 3, number of patients (%)	n = 29	29 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)		n = 43	43 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
P value between visits No. 1 and No. 2 ‡								<.001								.017
P value between visits No. 1 and No. 3 ‡								<.001								<.001

^*Nonparametric Mann–Whitney U test.

^†Results in scores of the answer to item 21 (sense of taste/smell) of the SNOT‐22.

^‡Nonparametric Wilcoxon signed‐rank test for dependent samples.