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Table 2.

Comparison of SF-36 scores (mean ± SD).

8 dimensions of SF-36	Time points	True moxibustion group	Sham moxibustion group	P value
PF	Baseline	57.83 ± 16.88	60.15 ± 17.21	0.428
	Week 3	60.65 ± 15.29	61.87 ± 16.87	0.661
	Week 6	63.99 ± 18.24^b	66.04 ± 14.42^b	0.467
	Week 12	63.62 ± 17.06^b	64.10 ± 17.47	0.871

RP	Baseline	33.70 ± 37.33	42.91 ± 41.70	0.177
	Week 3	43.12 ± 41.32	42.16 ± 42.02	0.894
	Week 6	43.48 ± 40.60	45.15 ± 40.88	0.811
	Week 12	41.67 ± 39.22	38.81 ± 40.89	0.678

RE	Baseline	49.76 ± 44.14	56.22 ± 41.52	0.381
	Week 3	59.42 ± 41.96	58.21 ± 44.70	0.871
	Week 6	57.49 ± 43.87	50.25 ± 44.71	0.342
	Week 12	54.11 ± 42.82	48.76 ± 42.37	0.465

VT	Baseline	53.55 ± 18.19	52.99 ± 18.55	0.858
	Week 3	56.16 ± 16.50	56.87 ± 14.40	0.791
	Week 6	59.42 ± 15.87^b	56.49 ± 14.62	0.265
	Week 12	61.30 ± 16.22^b	55.52 ± 16.68	0.042^d

MH	Baseline	71.54 ± 14.41	68.78 ± 15.84	0.289
	Week 3	69.33 ± 13.35	66.27 ± 15.26	0.214
	Week 6	68.81 ± 12.75	66.99 ± 14.43	0.435
	Week 12	68.81 ± 13.95	66.33 ± 17.80	0.366

SF	Baseline	78.62 ± 18.70	75.00 ± 16.71	0.236
	Week 3	78.26 ± 15.99	76.49 ± 17.21	0.536
	Week 6	79.17 ± 13.33	78.54 ± 15.05	0.799
	Week 12	76.45 ± 14.93	75.00 ± 17.13	0.600

BP	Baseline	58.55 ± 12.82	57.69 ± 18.49	0.751
	Week 3	63.62 ± 12.46^b	61.72 ± 15.72	0.434
	Week 6	67.54 ± 14.45^a	65.93 ± 13.53^a	0.506
	Week 12	66.56 ± 14.68^a	65.60 ± 16.83^b	0.723

GH	Baseline	50.29 ± 15.31	47.99 ± 15.88	0.390
	Week 3	49.20 ± 15.35	46.87 ± 14.30	0.360
	Week 6	54.42 ± 15.92^c	48.43 ± 12.10	0.015^d
	Week 12	54.57 ± 14.67^c	48.88 ± 15.44	0.029^d

BP: bodily pain; GH: general health; MH: mental health; RE: emotional role functionality; PF: physical functioning; RP: physical role functionality; SF: social role functionality; VT: vitality.

^aCompared with pretreatment: P < 0.001; ^bcompared with pretreatment: P < 0.01; ^ccompared with pretreatment: P < 0.05; ^db-group comparison: P < 0.05.