Table 5 Comparison of social 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 | 2.47 | 0.83 | 1.53 | 0.72 | 0.000 | 21 | 2.57 | 0.68 | 1.76 | 0.62 | 0.000 |
2 | 8 | 2.63 | 0.52 | 1.25 | 0.46 | 0.001 | 4 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.015 |
3 | 14 | 2.36 | 1.01 | 1.21 | 0.43 | 0.000 | 8 | 2.75 | 0.46 | 1.88 | 0.64 | 0.000 |
4 | 17 | 2.59 | 0.80 | 1.82 | 0.88 | 0.003 | 5 | 1.80 | 0.45 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.016 |
5 | 8 | 2.25 | 0.89 | 1.75 | 0.71 | 0.033 | 4 | 2.75 | 0.96 | 2.25 | 0.50 | 0.182 |