Table 4.
Association between time of delay and patients responses to questionairre.
| Questionairre response | Overall | Patient reported delay, N (%) |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-4 wks | 4-8 wks | 9-12 wks | >12 wks | |||
| Negative emotion | ||||||
| Yes | 75 (66%) | 9 (53%) | 36 (69%) | 17 (81%) | 13 (56.5%) | .2066 |
| No | 38 (34%) | 9 (47%) | 16 (31%) | 4 (19%) | 11 (43%) | |
| Negative effect | ||||||
| Yes | 85 (75%) | 11 (65%) | 39 (75%) | 18 (86%) | 17 (74%) | .5180 |
| No | 28 (25%) | 6 (35%) | 13 (25%) | 3 (14%) | 6 (26%) | |
| Elective surgery | ||||||
| Yes | 64 (57%) | 8 (47%) | 30 (58%) | 10 (48%) | 16 (70%) | .4042 |
| No | 49 (43%) | 9 (53%) | 22 (42%) | 11 (52%) | 7 (30%) | |
| Pain increase | ||||||
| Yes | 66 (58%) | 9 (53%) | 31 (60%) | 12 (57%) | 14 (61%) | .9578 |
| No | 47 (42%) | 8 (47%) | 21 (40%) | 9 (43%) | 9 (39%) | |
| Delay total | 18 (15.4%) | 53 (45.3%) | 22 (18.8%) | 24 (20.5%) | ||