Statistical Analysis
SPSS 11.5 software was used in the analysis of the data. For descriptive
analysis, quantitative variables were presented as mean ± standard
deviation and median (minimum-maximum), and qualitative variables were
presented as number of patients (percentage). Since the normal
distribution assumptions were not realized, whether there was a
difference between the categories of the qualitative variable, which has
two categories in terms of quantitative variable, was analyzed by using
the Mann-Whitney U test. The Chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact test
were used to evaluate the relationship between two qualitative
variables. The statistical significance level was accepted as 0.05.