Table 5.

Number of patients with persistent pain.

Time of Evaluation	QLB	CON	TAPB	p-Value
Month 1	14/31	23/31	17/28	0.034
Month 3	15/31	19/31	18/30	0.56
Month 6	10/31	16/28	13/29	0.158

The table presents the number of patients who perceived any signs of chronic postsurgical pain at one, three, and six months after cesarean section. The probability was calculated with the Freeman–Halton extension of Fisher’s exact test. CON denotes the control group, QLB denotes the quadratus lumborum block group, and TAPB denotes the transversus abdominis plane block group.