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Table 5 Results from telephone interviews with parents of 36 patients with experiences from 48 treatments with oestrogen and/or manual separations

From: Treatment with oestrogen or manual separation for labial adhesions – initial outcome and long-term follow-up

Treatment

(n)

Experience

Score 1–5

Median (range)

p-valueb

Would not recommend the treatment to others/do not know

Would recommend the treatment to others

p-valuec

Oestrogen

n = 37

4 (1–5)

0.434

5/2

30 (68)

1.000

Manual separationa

n = 11

4 (1–5)

0/3

8 (73)

  1. a 5 were under local and 6 under general anaesthesia
  2. b Mann Whitney
  3. c Fisher’s exact test two tailed comparing would not recommend the treatment to others/do not know with would recommend the treatmentReported inconvenience with treatments was scored 1–5 (1 = very inconvenient, 5 = no problems according to Table 1). The distribution of the scored experience is visualised in Fig. 2. n (%)