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Table 3 Comparisons of Time-to-Awaken and Time-to-Escape Between Types of Alarms

From: Optimizing smoke alarm signals: Testing the effectiveness of children’s smoke alarms for sleeping adults

 

Time to Awaken

Time to Escape

Alarm Signal Comparison

Wilcoxon’s P-Value

HR (95% CI)*

Wilcoxon’s P-Value

HR (95% CI)*

Overall

 Equality of Alarm Signals

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

Pairwise Comparison

 ‘Female voice’ vs ‘High-frequency tone’

<.001

1.40 (1.11–1.77)

<.001

1.83 (1.45–2.31)

 ‘Male voice’ vs ‘High-frequency tone’

<.001

1.33 (1.06–1.68)

<.001

1.71 (1.36–2.15)

 ‘Low frequency tone’ vs ‘High-frequency tone’

<.001

1.50 (1.19–1.89)

<.001

1.42 (1.13–1.78)

 ‘Female voice’ vs ‘Male voice’

0.346

1.05 (0.84–1.32)

0.7946

1.07 (0.85–1.35)

 ‘Female voice’ vs ‘Low frequency tone’

0.340

0.93 (0.74–1.17)

0.0272

1.30 (1.03–1.63)

 ‘Male voice’ vs ‘Low frequency tone’

0.058

0.89 (0.71–1.11)

0.052

1.21 (0.96–1.52)

  1. HR Hazard ratio
  2. CI Confidence interval