Comparison of the scores on questions related with anesthesia (mean ± sd).

Table 6: Comparison of the scores on questions related with anesthesia (mean ± sd).

		1^st day		1^st month
		r	p	r	p
Gender	Female	3.13 ± 1.52	0.588	2.57 ± 0.79	0.912
Gender	Male	3.79 ± 2.26	0.588	2.86 ± 1.56	0.912
Age		-0.19	0.261	-0.009	0.956
Marital status	Single	3.50 ± 1.95	0.532	2.78 ± 1.00	0.283
Marital status	Married	3.26 ± 1.76	0.532	2.58 ± 1.26	0.283
Children	No	3.39 ± 1.88	0.844	2.78 ± 1.40	1
Children	Yes	3.37 ± 1.83	0.844	2.58 ± 0.84	1
Educational Level	Primary school	2.88 ± 1.81	0.335	2.75 ± 1.16	0.801
	High school	3.09 ± 1.58		2.45 ± 0.82
	University	3.78 ± 1.99		2.78 ± 1.31
Previous surgery	No	2.88 ± 1.54	0.129	2.82 ± 1.42	0.816
Previous surgery	Yes	3.80 ± 1.99	0.129	2.55 ± 0.83	0.816
Degree of kinship	1^st degree	3.32 ± 1.76	0.954	2.71 ± 1.15	0.532
Degree of kinship	2^nd degree and more	3.56 ± 2.13	0.954	2.56 ± 1.13	0.532
Etiology	Alcohol	2.33 ± 0.52	0.222	2.17 ± 0.41	0.086
	Infection	3.80 ± 1.88		3.05 ± 1.36
	Other	3.18 ± 2.04		2.27 ± 0.65
Length of disease (year)		-0.188	0.264	0.088	0.604

Kruskal-Wallis/Mann-whitney u test/Spearman correlation.