Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants

Table 3

Descriptive statistics for all measured variables when pooled across all textured pacifiers (𝑃 < 0.05).

	Textured	Smooth	𝐹	Sig.	η²
Total compressions	196.73 (34.27)	212.64 (44.29)	6.561	0.011	0.037
Non-NNS events	20.2 (16.06)	16.6 (21.41)	1.617	0.205	0.009
NNS cycles	88.12 (15.96)	98.02 (18.0)	9.979	0.002	0.055
NNS bursts	17.72 (5.66)	15.09 (4.97)	7.745	0.006	0.043
NNS cycles/burst	11.04 (7.02)	15.2 (12.19)	7.875	0.006	0.044
NNS cycles % total	89.23 (8.36)	92.49 (6.11)	5.779	0.017	0.033
Pressure amplitude	17.45 (9.48)	23.13 (7.76)	14.009	0.000	0.075
STI	73.56 (7.5)	70.06 (10.44)	5.816	0.017	0.033