Assessment of the Factors Influencing the Patient’s Comprehension of the Informed Consent to Interventional Pain Procedures

Table 5

Effect of patient’s subjective understanding on objective understanding and satisfaction.

Answers	Objective understanding^a			Satisfaction^b
	Poor (%)	Good	Total	Poor (%)	Good	Total
Did not understand	2 (100)	0	2	2 (100)	0	2
Would have liked more information	7 (100)	0	7	7 (100)	0	7
Enough information	134 (69.8)	58 (30.2)	192	12 (5.3)	180 (94.7%)	192
Total	143 (71.1)	58 (28.9%)	201	21 (10.4)	180 (89.6%)	201
Significance	value: 0.043^c			value: ≤0.001^c

^aScores of 0–2 classified as poor understanding and 3–5 as good understanding. ^bScores of 0–4 classified as poor satisfaction and 5–7 as satisfied. ^cWilks test (likelihood-ratio test).