Table 1: Characteristics of patients in the intervention and control groups who underwent surgery while awake.

Intervention Groups
All Patients Listening to Music Looking at Pictures Control Group P value
Men/women, n (%) 82 (53)/
92 (47)
28 (48)/
30 (52)
36 (50)/
36 (50)
18 (41)/
26 (59)
0.623
Age, mean (SD) 58 (17) 59 (17) 72 (16) 56 (18) 0.489
Anesthesia 0.004
Spinal, n (%) 80 (48) 28 (48) 41 (57) 11 (25)
Epidural, n (%) 1 (0.6) 0 1 (1) 0
Local, n (%) 86 (49) 28 (48) 28 (39) 30 (68)
Surgical treatment <0.0001
Surgery, n (%) 51 (29) 30 (52) 14 (19) 7 (16)
Urology, n (%) 34 (19) 15 (26) 16 (22) 3 (7)
Gynecology, n (%) 2 (1) 2 (3) 0 0
Orthopedics, n (%) 87 (50) 11 (19) 42 (58) 34 (77)
Had surgery being awake earlier, n (%) 102 (58) 37 (64) 40 (56) 25 (57) 0.534

SD, Standard Deviation. Missing values for age, n=1, and for anesthesia, n=7.