Table 3.
Postoperative pain intensity in intervention and control group
| Control group Mean (SD) | Intervention group Mean (SD) | Independent t-test |
Confidence Interval |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| t | df | p | Lower | Upper | |||
| Immediately after consciousness | 7.19 (2.64) | 7.44 (1.48) | 0.46 | 62.00 | 0.642 | -0.82 | 1.32 |
| 2 h after consciousness | 6.69 (2.17) | 6.31 (1.25) | -0.84 | 0.402 | -1.26 | 0.51 | |
| 4 h after consciousness | 6.31 (2.05) | 5.72 (1.17) | -1.42 | 0.161 | -1.42 | 0.24 | |
| 6 h after consciousness | 6.16 (2.08) | 5.59 (1.43) | -1.26 | 0.213 | -1.45 | 0.33 | |
| 12 after consciousness | 6.06 (2.24) | 5.25 (1.13) | -1.83 | 0.072 | -1.70 | 0.76 | |
| 24 h after consciousness | 5.38 (1.86) | 4.97 (1.57) | -0.94 | 0.350 | -1.26 | 0.45 | |