Table 3.
Pain Experience (N=1064)
| Acupuncture (n = 208) |
No Acupuncture (n = 856) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Response Rate (n, %) |
Value | Response Rate (n, %) |
Value | P a | |
|
| |||||
| Number of pain sites [mean (SD)] | 208 (100.0) | 5.1 (2.8) | 852 (99.5) | 3.6 (2.5) | < .001 |
| Pain Sitesb | 208 (100.0) | 852 (99.5) | 0.11 | ||
| Abdomen | 18 (8.7) | 88 (10.3) | |||
| Arms and/or hands | 102 (49.0) | 270 (31.5) | |||
| Back | 165 (79.3) | 464 (54.2) | |||
| Buttocks | 34 (16.3) | 87 (10.2) | |||
| Chest | 23 (11.1) | 93 (10.9) | |||
| Face or jaw | 48 (23.1) | 133 (15.5) | |||
| Head, such as headache or migraine | 121 (58.2) | 388 (45.3) | |||
| Hips | 97 (46.6) | 244 (28.5) | |||
| Legs and/or feet | 129 (62.0) | 448 (52.3) | |||
| Neck | 125 (60.1) | 307 (35.9) | |||
| Pelvic area or groin | 47 (22.6) | 105 (12.3) | |||
| Shoulder | 124 (59.6) | 342 (40.0) | |||
| Widespread pain or Fibromyalgia | 24 (11.5) | 56 (6.5) | |||
| Other | 5 (2.4) | 11 (1.3) | |||
| BPI- SF | |||||
| Average Pain Intensity [mean (SD)] | 208 (100.0) | 4.6 (1.7) | 852 (99.5) | 4.9 ( 2.0) | 0.08c |
| Pain Interference [mean (SD)] | 203 (97.6) | 4.4 (2.4) | 849 (99.2) | 4.3 (2.5) | 0.63 |
| FIM Total [mean (SD)] | 201 (96.6) | 117.8 (7.4) | 846 (98.8) | 117.7 (10.1) | 0.18 |
| FIM Motor [mean (SD)] | 203 (97.6) | 86.8 (5.1) | 847 (98.9) | 86.1 (8.3) | 0.50 |
| FIM Cognitive [mean (SD)] | 201 (96.6) | 30.9 (3.8) | 848 (99.1) | 31.5 (3.3) | 0.06 |
Note: Values are presented as number (%) of the total number of respondents displayed in the response rate for categorical variables and mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables where noted.
Abbreviations: BPI-SF = Brief Pain Inventory- Short Form; FIM = Functional Independence Measure; SD = standard deviation.
a
Statistical significance by Mann-Whitney, unpaired t-test, Fisher’s exact, or chi-squared as appropriate.
b
Respondents can have multiple pain sites. It is possible that some respondents did not provide a response to all questions on unique pain sites.
c
Statistical significance by unpaired t-test.