Table 3 Mean and differences between the device-assisted and manual methods using a paired t test (care recipients, n = 17).
Dependent variables | Score range/unit | D | M | Diff | SE | 95% CI | t-value | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Lower | Upper | ||||||
Safety | 0–100 | 90.3 | 9.3 | 77.2 | 20.6 | − 13.1 | 4.6 | − 3.3 | − 22.8 | − 2.84 | 0.0119 |
Comfort | 0–100 | 91.6 | 8.1 | 70.2 | 24.2 | − 21.5 | 5.7 | − 9.4 | − 33.5 | − 3.78 | 0.0016 |
Ease | 0–100 | 92.2 | 6.6 | 66.2 | 21.6 | − 26.0 | 5.3 | − 14.7 | − 37.3 | − 4.88 | 0.0002 |
Care score | 0–100 | 90.9 | 5.3 | 72.6 | 18.8 | − 18.4 | 4.6 | − 8.6 | − 28.1 | − 3.99 | 0.0011 |
Heart rate | Beat/min | 61.1 | 9.9 | 61.9 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 2.5 | − 0.8 | 1.12 | 0.2802 |
