Table 1.
Pretreatment Characteristics of the Participants
| Characteristics | Verum |
Sham |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| acupuncture group |
acupuncture group |
|
|
| (n = 53) | (n = 52) | P | |
| Age (yrs ± SD) | 50.70 ± 9.96 | 47.63 ± 11.35 | 0.144 |
| Gender, (n %) | |||
| Female | 34 (%64) | 35 (%67) | 0.289 |
| Male | 19 (%36) | 17 (%33) | |
| Hearing, (n %) | |||
| Bilateral loss | 43 (%81) | 44 (%84) | |
| No loss | 10 (%19) | 8 (%16) | |
| Hearing loss grade, (n %) | |||
| Normal with decrease | 15 (%28) | 16 (%31) | |
| Mild | 12 (%23) | 12 (%23) | |
| Moderate | 13 (%25) | 14 (%27) | |
| Severe | 3 (%1) | 2 (%1) |
yrs, years; SD, standard deviation.