Table 3.
Comparison of degree of postoperative pain between the study and control groups in various postoperative periods.
| Degree of pain | Periods of postoperative pain |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 h postoperatively |
2 h postoperatively |
6 h postoperatively |
First postoperative night |
First postoperative day |
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| Study |
Control |
Study |
Control |
Study |
Control |
Study |
Control |
Study |
Control |
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| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| No pain | 6 (60) | 5 (50) | 4 (40) | 3 (30) | 2 (20) | 1 (10) | 5 (50) | 1 (10) | 3 (30) | 2 (20) |
| Mild-to-moderate pain | 4 (40) | 3 (30) | 5 (50) | 5 (50) | 6 (60) | 7 (70) | 5 (60) | 7 (70) | 7 (70) | 4 (40) |
| Severe-to-very severe pain | 0 | 2 (20) | 1 (10) | 2 (20) | 2 (20) | 2 (20) | 0 | 2 (20) | 0 | 4 (40) |
| X2 | 2.234 | 0.476 | 0.41 | 5 | 5.018 | |||||
| p value | 0.327 | 0.778 | 0.815 | 0.82 | 0.81 | |||||