Table 3 Evaluation of comfort, pain and future repetition of the rectal biopsy procedure assessed by patients by gender, age group and sedation (n = 75)
Comfort | Pain | Future procedure | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Very uncomfortable (18) | Somewhat uncomfortable (27) | Not uncomfortable (30) | No (59) | Yes (16) | 0 (9) | 1 (14) | 2 (9) | 3 (3) | 4 (40) | ||
Gender | Female | 9 | 20 | 12 | 34 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 24 |
Male | 9 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | |
Age Groups (years) | 0 – 9 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
10 – 19 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 15 | |
20 – 29 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
≥ 30 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
Sedation | No | 10 | 15 | 12 | 28 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 20 |
Yes | 8 | 12 | 18 | 31 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 20 | |