How did the information you were given before the procedure helped you to cope with your experience?

Total

It was not sufficient to meet my needs

Sufficient but would have preferred more information

Good explanation of what to expect with the treatment

Excellent explanation of what to expect with the treatment

R

Spearman Correlation

p value

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

How would you rate your pain/discomfort following surgery?

Significantly less discomfort than I had expected

2

7.4

2

7.4

4

14.8

4

14.8

12

44.4

0.230

0.248

Slightly less discomfort than I had expected

0

0

1

3.7

7

25.9

1

3.7

9

33.3

About the same amount of discomfort that I had expected

0

0

0

0

2

7.4

1

3.7

3

11.1

Slightly more than I had expected

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

7.4

2

7.4

Significantly more than I had expected

0

0

0

0

1

3.7

0

0

1

3.7

Total

2

7.4

3

11.1

14

51.9

8

29.6

27

100.0