Total pain medication received: rocking 29.35 (mg) +/- 58.99: non-rocking 36.48 (mg) +/- 51.66. Time in rocking/non-rocking chairs: Listed daily for 5 days Time to discharge: rocking 7.69 days +/-4.57 days: non-rocking 7.89 days +/- 3.20 days Laps ambulated per day: Listed daily for 5 days What did this statistic show or prove: The application of a standard deviation to the categories of data collected, describe the range that the data is spread out from the mean (average, center). The standard deviation normalizes the data. Was an associated P value? A P value was associated with the mean/SD data If yes, what did the P value show? Subject characteristics-age P=.600, gender-P=.218, ethnicity P=.875, marital status P=.757, and diagnosis P=.752. All not significant Surgery duration-P=.280-Not Significant Anesthesia duration-P=.204-Not Significant Times to first flatus-P=.001-Highly significant for rocking group passing first flatus 16.8 hours earlier than the non-rocking Total pain medication received-rocking P<.001 and non-rocking P<.001. This was nonnormality for both groups-A Levene’s test for homogeneity was not violated and the variances were assumed to be equal. Time in rocking/non-rocking chairs-P values ranged from .039-.650 (days 1-5). Not significant. Time to discharge-P=.837-Not significant
Total pain medication received: rocking 29.35 (mg) +/- 58.99: non-rocking 36.48 (mg) +/- 51.66. Time in rocking/non-rocking chairs: Listed daily for 5 days Time to discharge: rocking 7.69 days +/-4.57 days: non-rocking 7.89 days +/- 3.20 days Laps ambulated per day: Listed daily for 5 days What did this statistic show or prove: The application of a standard deviation to the categories of data collected, describe the range that the data is spread out from the mean (average, center). The standard deviation normalizes the data. Was an associated P value? A P value was associated with the mean/SD data If yes, what did the P value show? Subject characteristics-age P=.600, gender-P=.218, ethnicity P=.875, marital status P=.757, and diagnosis P=.752. All not significant Surgery duration-P=.280-Not Significant Anesthesia duration-P=.204-Not Significant Times to first flatus-P=.001-Highly significant for rocking group passing first flatus 16.8 hours earlier than the non-rocking Total pain medication received-rocking P<.001 and non-rocking P<.001. This was nonnormality for both groups-A Levene’s test for homogeneity was not violated and the variances were assumed to be equal. Time in rocking/non-rocking chairs-P values ranged from .039-.650 (days 1-5). Not significant. Time to discharge-P=.837-Not significant