Table 1.
The auditory sensations experienced by patients during phacoemulsification.
| Group I | Group II | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Did you hear any sounds on the operating theater? | |||||
| Yes | 114 | 91.9% | 74 | 97.4% | 0.056 |
| No | 9 | 7% | 2 | 2.1% | |
| Do not remember | 1 | 1.1% | – | – | |
| If yes, what kind of sounds? | |||||
| Staff conversations | 114 | 91.9% | 73 | 96% | 0.399 |
| Surgeon comments and instructions | 108 | 87.1% | 66 | 86.8% | 0.621 |
| Music in the background | 88 | 70.9% | 57 | 75% | 0.591 |
| Noise of phacoemulsifier | 64 | 51.6% | 43 | 56.6% | 0.070 |
| If you heard the phacoemulsifier noise, what kind of noise was that? | |||||
| Rattling | 37 | 29.8% | 29 | 38.2% | 0.327 |
| Twitching | 1 | 0.8% | 2 | 2.6% | |
| Squeaking | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2.6% | |
| Hard to say | 24 | 19.4% | 10 | 13.2% | |
| Did you listen intently to that sounds? | |||||
| Yes | 61 | 49.2% | 40 | 52.6% | 0.940 |
| No | 53 | 42.7% | 34 | 44.7% | |
| If you heard music, was it pleasant? | |||||
| Yes | 86 | 69.4% | 56 | 73.7% | 0.315 |
| No | 2 | 1.6% | 1 | 1.3% | |
| Do you think that the listening to the music during the surgery was beneficial? | |||||
| Yes | 102 | 82.3% | 68 | 89.5% | 0.341 |
| No | 21 | 16.9% | 8 | 10.5% | |
| Do not know | 1 | 0.8% | - | - | |
Group 1: N = 124, Group 2: N = 76.