Table 4 Bowel symptom responses from PQoL questionnaire from women before and after surgery
bowel symptom | response | before surgery | after surgery | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
feeling of incomplete bowel emptying after defecation | does not occur not at all a little moderately a lot | 28 10 11 7 4 | 39 3 10 5 3 | 0.176 |
constipation, difficulty in defecation | does not occur not at all a little moderately a lot | 32 10 6 5 7 | 41 6 3 6 4 | 0.4012 |
strain accompanying the defecation | does not occur not at all a little moderately a lot | 31 13 6 4 6 | 41 9 3 3 4 | 0.4488 |
use of fingers to defecate | does not occur not at all a little moderately a lot | 48 6 2 1 3 | 53 0 5 0 2 | 0.04262 |
frequency of defecation | more than once a day once a day once every two days once every three days once a week or less | 8 39 6 4 3 | 4 42 8 4 2 | 0.7779 |