Table 5.
Intragroup and intergroup comparison of the pain perception using the visual analogical scale (VAS)
| Observational times | Groups | Effect size (95% CI) |
p value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini Hyrax | Hyrax | |||||||
| Median | Min–Max | Mean | Median | Min–Max | Mean | |||
| 24 h | 45.30 | 0.00–96.80 | 37.35 A | 35.57 | 0.00–91.84 | 38.96 A | 0.05 (− 4.00–4.10) | 0.847 |
| 48 h | 27.19 | 0.00–91.37 | 35.46 A | 27.72 | 0.00–83.44 | 31.06 A | 0.16 (− 0.54–0.86) | 0.653 |
| 72 h | 15.77 | 0.00–93.56 | 25.63 AB | 9.44 | 0.00–75.78 | 22.37 B | 0.12 (− 0.58–0.82) | 0.967 |
| 7 days | 8.22 | 0.00–71.59 | 15.32 B | 4.85 | 0.00–64.77 | 16.21 B | 0.04 (− 3.23–3.31) | 0.844 |
Intergroup comparison (Mini Hyrax versus Hyrax): Mann-Whitney test. Level of significance p < 0.05
Intragroup comparison (between pairs of time): Wilcoxon test. Level of significance p < 0.05.
Same letters: not significative statistical difference. Different letters: significant statistical
CI confidence interval