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considered to be of normal distribution according to the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality( Figure 10). Following this, a one-way ANOVA test determined that the two variables showed no statistically significant relationship( Figure 11).
Figure 10- Shapiro-Wilk test of normality for Premedication
Figure 11- One-way ANOVA test for Temperature Decreases and Premedication
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Body temperature decreases and length of MRI procedure The length of scan varied dependant on the area( s) of interest and findings during imaging, ranging from 30-210 minutes( mean = 76.52, SD = 26.996). It was confirmed through a Shapiro-Wilk test of normality that the data collected for time in the MRI suite was not normally distributed( Figure 12). Based on this result, a Spearman’ s rank correlation coefficient test was run to evaluate the relationship between body temperature decreases and length of time in the MRI suite( Figure 13). The test showed a statistically significant correlation( p = 0.003) with a positive correlation coefficient( 0.293), meaning that the longer a patient was in the MRI suite, the more their body temperature decreased. The corelation coefficient can be rounded up to 0.3, and so the correlation between the two variables is considered low.
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