Table 9 Comparison of Overall manifestation before the 1st and after the 30th acupuncture treatment in natal and regressive autism of different age
From: The therapeutic effect of scalp acupuncture on natal autism and regressive autism
Age (year) | Natal | Regressive | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-treatment | Post-treatment | Pre-treatment | Post-treatment | |||||||||
n | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p-value | n | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p-value | |
All | 47 | 11.32 | 2.49 | 8.11 | 2.09 | 0.000 | 21 | 11.76 | 2.10 | 8.71 | 1.87 | 0.000 |
2 | 8 | 12.25 | 1.91 | 8.13 | 1.25 | 0.000 | 4 | 12.25 | 1.26 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.007 |
3 | 14 | 10.21 | 2.36 | 6.79 | 1.25 | 0.000 | 8 | 12.38 | 2.20 | 9.75 | 2.49 | 0.002 |
4 | 17 | 12.12 | 2.62 | 8.88 | 2.29 | 0.000 | 5 | 10.60 | 2.70 | 7.80 | 1.30 | 0.025 |
5 | 8 | 10.63 | 2.33 | 8.75 | 2.60 | 0.001 | 4 | 11.50 | 1.73 | 8.50 | 1.29 | 0.001 |