Table 3.
Quantitative assessment of objective outcomes.
| Data | Groups |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With satisfactory improvement | Without satisfactory improvement | Total | t test p-value | ||
| With vs. without improvement | |||||
| Patients, total | n (%) | 13 (81.3) | 3 (18.7) | 16 (100) | |
| SNOT-22 pre | Mean (SD) | 47.7 (19.6) | 61.0 (16.4) | 50.2 (19.3) | 0.31 |
| SNOT-22 post | Mean (SD) | 25.3 (19.3) | 48.0 (16.5) | 29.6 (20.4) | 0.13 |
| Difference SNOT-22 | Mean (SD) | 22.4 (23.4) | 13.0 (4.4) | 20.6 (21.6) | 0.19 |
| Pre vs. post t test p-value | 0.007a | 0.39 | 0.006a | ||
| Lund–Kennedy pre | Mean (SD) | 8.5 (3.5) | 10.3 (1.5) | 8.8 (3.3) | 0.19 |
| Lund–Kennedy post | Mean (SD) | 4.2 (4.3) | 9.3 (1.2) | 5.1 (4.4) | 0.002a |
| Difference Lund–Kennedy | Mean (SD) | 4.3 (4.0) | 1.0 (1.0) | 3.7 (3.8) | 0.02a |
| Pre vs. post t test p-value | 0.009a | 0.42 | 0.01a | ||
N, number; %, percentage; SD, standard deviation.
a
Statistical significance.