Table 2.
Subjective assessment of the sounds heard during the surgery.
| Group I | Group II | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Which sounds during the surgery you rate as a pleasure? | |||||
| Music in the background | 97 | 78.2% | 60 | 78.9% | 0.702 |
| Staff conversations | 5 | 4.0% | 4 | 5.3% | |
| Surgeon informing about the course of surgery | 83 | 66.9% | 54 | 71.1% | |
| Noise of phacoemulsifier | - | - | - | - | |
| Do not know | 5 | 4.0% | 1 | 1.3% | |
| None | 7 | 5.6% | 2 | 2.6% | |
| Which of the sounds were most unpleasant? | |||||
| Staff conversations | 6 | 4.8% | 5 | 6.6% | |
| Noise of phacoemulsifier | 25 | 20.2% | 12 | 15.8% | 0.226 |
| Music in the background | 13 | 10.5% | 2 | 2.6% | |
| None | 75 | 60.5% | 53 | 69.7% | |
| Do not know | 5 | 4.0% | 4 | 5.2% | |
| Which of the sounds during the surgery should be eliminated? | |||||
| Staff conversations | 4 | 3.2% | 10 | 13.2% | 0.005 |
| Music in the background | 2 | 1,6% | 1 | 1.3% | 0.008 |
| Noise of phacoemulsifier | 23 | 18.5% | 7 | 9.2% | |
| None | 65 | 52.4%a | 53 | 69.7a | |
| Do not know | 30 | 24.2b | 5 | 6.6%b | |
Group 1: N = 124, Group: N = 76.
a,bStatistically significant in post-hoc test (a: p = 0,013; b: p = 0,022), (p < 0,05).