Clinical Study
Cryotherapy Reduced Postoperative Pain in Gynecologic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of participants (50 cases per group).
| | | Control | Study | p value |
| | Age (years) | 43±11.21 | 42.88±13.13 | 0.961 | | Weight (kg) | 58.86±10.73 | 58.28±10.56 | 0.786 | | Height (cm) | 157.92±4.15 | 157.44±4.39 | 0.576 | | Education level | | | 0.304 | | Primary school | 2 (4) | 6 (12) | | | High school | 13 (26) | 19 (38) | | | Bachelor’s degree | 32 (64) | 23 (46) | | | Higher than Bachelor’s degree | 3 (6) | 2 (4) | | | Occupation | | | 0.254 | | Agriculture | 6 (12) | 9 (18) | | | Self-employed | 19 (38) | 22 (44) | | | Employee | 10 (20) | 11 (22) | | | Government officer | 11 (22) | 8 (16) | | | | 4 (8) | 0 (0) | | | Income (baht) | | | 0.789 | | <10,000 | 4 (8) | 3 (6) | | | 10,000-30,000 | 23 (46) | 21 (42) | | | 30,000-50,000 | 19 (38) | 19 (38) | | | >50,000 | 4 (8) | 7 (14) | | | Underlying disease | | | 0.212 | | None | 40 (80) | 38 (76) | | | Hypertension | 2 (4) | 7 (14) | | | Dyslipidemia | 2 (4) | 2 (4) | | | | 5 (10) | 3 (6) | |
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: mean ± standard deviation (SD) : n(%); : housewife, student; : diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, anemia, coagulopathy, hypothyroid, or hyperthyroid. |
