Table 4 Relationship between the causal mechanism of otalgia to age group and sex
From: Epidemiological, clinical and aetiological aspects of otalgia at the Renaissance University Hospital
Variable | Age | P | Sex | P | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Child | Adult | Male | Female | |||||||
Mechanism | ||||||||||
Otodynia | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
25 | 92.6 | 40 | 65.6 | 0.008* | 35 | 74.5 | 30 | 73.2 | 0.890 | |
Referred otalgia | 2 | 7.4 | 21 | 34.4 | 12 | 25.5 | 11 | 26.8 | ||
Ear topography | ||||||||||
Middle ear | 13 | 52.0 | 22 | 55.0 | 0.443 | 20 | 57.1 | 15 | 50.0 | 0.504 |
External ear | 11 | 44.0 | 18 | 45.0 | 14 | 40.0 | 15 | 50.0 | ||
Internal ear | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.9 | 0 | 0.0 | ||