Table 1.

Clinical information comparisons ( $\overline{\mathrm{x}}$ ±s).

	Groups		Comparisons
	CFS	HC	Statistic value	p value
Demographics
n	37	34	/	/
Age	35.35 ± 11.98**	30.47 ± 11.46**	751	0.159
Gender (M/F)	11/26	10/24	0.001	0.977
BMI	22.69 ± 2.52	21.73 ± 2.98	1.474	0.145
CFS durations (month)	58.68 ± 67.98	/	/	/
Clinical assessments
SF-36	54.40 ± 14.87	82.74 ± 10.79**	107	<0.001*
MPQ-PRI	7.19 ± 5.01**	1.76 ± 1.88**	1083.5	<0.001*
FS-14	10.24 ± 2.52	4.50 ± 3.75**	1,109	<0.001*

^** represents p < 0.05 according to Shapiro test; ^* represents p < 0.05 according to comparisons between the two groups.