Observation of therapeutic effect of lamp irradiation combined with purple gromwell oil gauze on alleviating intestinal colic in patients

Table 1 Comparison of basic characteristics between groups

Item		Control group	Observation group	t/χ2 value	P value
Age (yr, mean ± SD)		62.39 ± 9.51	63.13 ± 10.69	0.464	0.644
Gender [n (%)]	Male	33 (55.00)	31 (51.67)	0.134	0.714
	Female	27 (45.00)	29 (48.33)
BMI/kg·cm2 (mean ± SD)		23.71 ± 1.83	23.45 ± 1.64	1.018	0.312
TNM staging [n (%)]	Ⅰ	11 (18.33)	13 (21.67)	0.346	0.841
	Ⅱ	31 (51.67)	28 (46.67)
	Ⅲ	18 (30.00)	19 (31.67)
Lesion site [n (%)]	Sigmoid colon	14 (23.33)	12 (20.00)	0.587	0.899
	Transverse colon	10 (16.67)	8 (13.33)
	Ascending colon	19 (31.67)	21 (35.00)
	Descending colon	17 (28.33)	19 (31.67)

Table 2 Comparison of clinical efficacy between groups [n (%)]

Group	Complete remission	Significant effect	Effective	Ineffective	Total effective rate
Control group	13 (21.67)	20 (33.33)	19 (31.67)	8 (13.33)	52 (86.67)
Observation group	16 (26.67)	27 (45.00)	14 (23.33)	3 (5.00)	57 (95.00)a

^aP < 0.05 compared with the control group.

Table 3 Comparison of symptom duration between groups (mean ± SD, min)

Group	Pretreatment	Posttreatment
		1 d	2 d	3 d	4 d
Control group	119.26 ± 9.37	110.45 ± 11.23	104.44 ± 11.68	99.44 ± 14.95	92.17 ± 14.20
Observation group	117.89 ± 9.74	96.54 ± 9.57	87.26 ± 12.07	80.45 ± 16.21	73.18 ± 15.58
t value	0.706	4.195	6.635	2.787	6.613
P value	0.482	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.007	< 0.001

Table 4 Comparison of NRS scores between groups (mean ± SD)

Group	Posttreatment
	1 d	2 d	3 d	4 d
Control group	4.04 ± 0.58	3.74 ± 1.02	3.43 ± 0.85	3.03 ± 0.82
observation group	3.56 ± 0.41	3.07 ± 0.67	2.52 ± 0.76	2.03 ± 0.58
t value	3.920	3.397	4.728	5.979
P value	< 0.001	0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001