Table 1: Mean difference in pain intensity.

Pain Intensity

Mean

Standard deviation

Paired-samples T test

df

t

p

Starting pain intensity

5.025

1.857

134

12.301

< 0.001*

Ending pain intensity

4.130

1.816

df: Degrees of freedom for each estimate of variance; t: Size of the difference relative to the variation; p: Significance level.