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Table 2 Participant outcome measures

From: Evaluation of self-educational training methods to learn laparoscopic skills - a randomized controlled trial

 

Group A

Video assisted learning

Group B

Video assisted learning + operation primer

p-value

n

22

23

 

Total composed knot points

46.5 ± 13.6

53.3 ± 8.4

0.016

Knot integrity points

3.18 ± 1.2

3.4 ± 0.6

0.76

Technical proficiency points

22.7 ± 5.6

24.3 ± 2.9

0.22

Knotting time points

20.6 ± 8.6

25.5 ± 6.5

0.009

Mean Knotting time per knot (sec)

394 [138–1397]

308 [100–1221]

0.001

Number of correctly performed knots

3.55 ± 1.4

4.2 ± 1.2

0.075