Table 8 Comparison of food selectivity 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 | 1.74 | 0.90 | 1.53 | 0.78 | 0.024 | 21 | 1.62 | 0.86 | 1.38 | 0.74 | 0.056 |
2 | 8 | 2.13 | 0.89 | 1.75 | 1.04 | 0.351 | 4 | 1.75 | 0.96 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.215 |
3 | 14 | 1.43 | 0.65 | 1.21 | 0.58 | 0.083 | 8 | 1.63 | 0.92 | 1.63 | 0.92 | 0.011 |
4 | 17 | 2.06 | 1.14 | 1.65 | 0.86 | 0.029 | 5 | 1.60 | 0.89 | 1.20 | 0.45 | 0.178 |
5 | 8 | 1.63 | 0.52 | 1.63 | 0.52 | NA | 4 | 1.50 | 1.00 | 1.50 | 1.00 | 0.215 |