Table 4.

Quality of life outcomes score from pre-treatment to post-treatment.

	Acupuncture group				Sham acupuncture group
	Pre-treatment (n = 458)	Post-treatment (n = 458)	p	a p	Pre-treatment (n = 468)	Post-treatment (n = 468)	p	a p	p1	a p1
SAS score	33.71 ± 6.93	34.50 ± 7.35	0.0840	0.0780	33.86 ± 6.82	34.20 ± 7.13	0.4532	0.4610	0.1727	0.1734
SDS score	35.24 ± 8.61	36.13 ± 8.61	0.1095	0.1023	35.48 ± 8.21	36.09 ± 8.40	0.2570	0.2620	0.3955	0.4055
PCOSQOL score	127.88 ± 28.38	128.71 ± 28.08	0.6488	0.6907	127.09 ± 29.47	127.05 ± 28.94	0.9834	0.9521	0.7371	0.7532
Emotions	4.27 ± 1.11	4.25 ± 1.10	0.8180	0.7721	4.31 ± 1.14	4.24 ± 1.08	0.3498	0.3255	0.4056	0.4030
Body hair	5.31 ± 1.52	5.27 ± 1.52	0.6960	0.7000	5.25 ± 1.61	5.21 ± 1.51	0.6924	0.6721	0.735	0.7378
Weight	4.29 ± 1.72	4.31 ± 1.64	0.8319	0.8780	4.20 ± 1.69	4.23 ± 1.66	0.8295	0.8744	0.588	0.5646
Infertility	3.65 ± 1.35	3.73 ± 1.30	0.3455	0.3746	3.64 ± 1.41	3.63 ± 1.43	0.9385	0.9116	0.1827	0.1866
Menstrual problems	4.41 ± 1.10	4.41 ± 1.12	0.9750	0.9552	4.35 ± 1.14	4.32 ± 1.15	0.7299	0.7449	0.7393	0.7563
SF-36 score	104.15 ± 4.52	106.89 ± 5.78	<0.0001	<0.0001	104.06 ± 4.54	106.78 ± 5.93	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.8016	0.7700
Physical functioning	93.36 ± 9.70	91.65 ± 11.53	0.0125	0.0129	93.29 ± 9.53	91.31 ± 11.43	0.0034	0.0034	0.9231	0.9268
Role-physical	23.35 ± 29.99	71.48 ± 32.39	<0.0001	<0.0001	21.49 ± 30.55	74.04 ± 32.23	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.1552	0.1594
Bodily pain	77.64 ± 12.96	76.78 ± 13.21	0.3105	0.2987	76.75 ± 13.68	75.80 ± 13.80	0.2821	0.3107	0.95	0.9026
General health	52.91 ± 11.64	53.60 ± 11.56	0.3558	0.3726	53.39 ± 12.20	54.00 ± 11.86	0.4276	0.4243	0.8012	0.8245
Vitality	42.73 ± 11.92	43.93 ± 11.97	0.1203	0.1213	42.20 ± 12.36	42.91 ± 12.21	0.3652	0.3451	0.5652	0.5629
Social functioning	49.00 ± 13.09	49.49 ± 11.79	0.5464	0.5464	48.95 ± 10.97	49.41 ± 12.15	0.5280	0.4826	0.8944	0.8264
Role-emotional	26.40 ± 34.62	71.43 ± 36.43	<0.0001	<0.0001	24.23 ± 34.90	73.40 ± 36.16	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.2813	0.2930
Mental health	60.02 ± 10.46	58.87 ± 10.56	0.0902	0.0875	60.84 ± 9.89	59.35 ± 10.83	0.0255	0.0247	0.8506	0.8769
Health transition	48.55 ± 25.80	42.48 ± 26.33	0.0003	0.0003	47.29 ± 25.62	39.89 ± 26.15	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.7356	0.7150
ChiQOL score	148.20 ± 11.04	149.80 ± 11.12	0.0254	0.0268	148.22 ± 11.28	149.78 ± 12.32	0.0410	0.0391	0.6637	0.6693
Physical form domain	3.35 ± 0.80	3.34 ± 0.82	0.9104	0.8837	3.25 ± 0.85	3.27 ± 0.80	0.6912	0.7051	0.5796	0.5996
Spirit domain	95.53 ± 8.36	96.34 ± 8.48	0.1386	0.1435	95.58 ± 8.21	96.18 ± 8.86	0.2791	0.2620	0.3763	0.3953
Emotion domain	49.32 ± 7.04	51.12 ± 7.36	0.0350	0.0353	49.39 ± 7.03	50.33 ± 7.44	0.0445	0.0451	0.8141	0.8332

Data are median (IQR).

p-values represent comparison before and after treatment within acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups.

^ap-values represent comparison before and after treatment within acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups after adjusting clomiphene and reproductive outcome.

p1-values represent comparison of the difference value before and after treatment between acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups.

^bp1-values represent comparison of the difference value before and after treatment between acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups after adjusting clomiphene and reproductive outcome.