Comparison of Reaction Response Time between Hand and Foot Controlled Devices in Simulated Microsurgical Testing

Table 11

RT analysis of variance of home row typing (mean ± SE); 𝑃<0.05 = statistically significant.

	𝑛	DH; (ms)	NDH; (ms)	Difference; (ms)	DF; (ms)	NDF; (ms)	Difference; (ms)
Typing-home Row
No	14	297 ± 13	308 ± 15	−11 ± 11	309 ± 14	335 ± 15	−27 ± 11
1x/week	2	299 ± 32	326 ± 37	−27 ± 27	327 ± 34	322 ± 36	5 ± 26
Daily	31	318 ± 9	333 ± 10	−15 ± 7	327 ± 9	337 ± 10	−10 ± 7
𝐹-test, 2 df		0.91	0.86	0.15	0.55	0.08	1.01
ANOVA 𝑃		0.41	0.43	0.86	0.58	0.92	0.37
Test for trend		0.20	0.19	0.79	0.30	0.94	0.22