Table 2 Pain intensity, duration, and number of pain sites for the 66 participants with pain
Ambulatory, N = 24 | Early non-ambulatory, N = 17 | Late non-ambulatory, N = 25 | Total, N = 66 | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intensity | Worst pain | 4.83 ± 2.14 | 4.06 ± 1.56 | 5.52 ± 2.08 | 4.89 ± 2.04 | 0.059 |
Average pain | 3.33 ± 2.18 | 2.82 ± 1.43 | 4.04 ± 1.70 | 3.47 ± 1.87 | 0.112 | |
Duration | Less than 1 hour | 16 (72.7%) | 13 (81.3%) | 13 (56.5%) | 42 (68.9%) | 0.371 |
A few hours | 2 (9.1%) | 3 (18.8%) | 7 (30.4%) | 12 (19.7%) | ||
Half of the day | 2 (9.1%) | 0 | 2 (8.7%) | 4 (6.6%) | ||
All day | 2 (9.1%) | 0 | 1 (4.3%) | 3 (4.9%) | ||
Number of pain sites* | 1.46 ± 0.72 | 1.47 ± 0.94 | 2.24 ± 1.51 | 1.76 ± 1.18 | 0.042 |