Clinical Observation of Silicon Hydrogel Contact Lens Fitted Immediately after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE)

Table 2

Comparison of the total symptom scores after SMILE between the 3 groups at different postsurgery time points.

Group	n	2 h	4 h	8 h	24 h	Time effect	Group effect	Time x group
						F	F	F
A	59	5.85 ± 3.86	3.63 ± 2.52	2.59 ± 1.71	1.62 ± 1.37
B	60	5.99 ± 4.35	4.43 ± 3.62	3.11 ± 2.55	1.98 ± 1.49
C	59	7.35 ± 4.44	4.30 ± 3.31	3.02 ± 2.36	2.03 ± 1.60	310.182	3.055	3.877
F		4.534	2.177	1.807	2.618
		0.011	0.115	0.166	0.074	0.000	0.048	0.001

(Mean ± SD, N = 178). Group A: wore BCLs for 8 hours, group B: wore BCLs for 24 hours, and group C: no BCL wear. .