Motor Responses and Weight Gaining in Neonates through Use of Two Methods of Earmuff and Receiving Silence in NICU

Table 4

Results of post hoc LSD test ( value) for comparison of mean of infants’ motor responses in paired times in each group.

Time	Groups
	Control		Silence		Earmuff
	Morning	Afternoon	Morning	Afternoon	Morning	Afternoon
Before & during	0.06	0.05^*	0.002^*	0.3	0.000^*	0.000^*
Before & immediately after	0.3	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.001^*	0.001^*
Before & 1 hr after	0.7	0.001^*	0.01^*	0.2	0.006^*	0.004^*
During & immediately after	0.9	0.000^*	0.001^*	0.2	0.02^*	0.000^*
During & 1 hr after	0.01^*	0.000^*	0.000^*	0.4	0.000^*	0.000^*
Immediately after & 1 hr after	0.1	0.03^*	0.000^*	0.9	0.01^*	0.1

means that the difference is meaningful.