Table 4 Comparison of verbal communication problems 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 | 2.87 | 0.99 | 1.87 | 0.80 | 0.000 | 21 | 3.48 | 0.93 | 2.29 | 1.06 | 0.000 |
2 | 8 | 3.25 | 1.16 | 2.25 | 0.89 | 0.001 | 4 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 2.75 | 0.50 | 0.015 |
3 | 14 | 2.93 | 0.83 | 1.57 | 0.76 | 0.000 | 8 | 3.63 | 0.74 | 2.25 | 1.04 | 0.008 |
4 | 17 | 2.82 | 1.01 | 1.88 | 0.78 | 0.000 | 5 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 2.20 | 0.84 | 0.016 |
5 | 8 | 2.50 | 1.07 | 2.00 | 0.76 | 0.033 | 4 | 3.25 | 1.50 | 2.00 | 1.83 | 0.141 |