Acupuncture for Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Table 1

Summary of the 27 clinical studies.

Study by reference	Number of subjects	Controls	Randomization	Blinded*	Description of subject dropout	Jadad Scores
Wong et al. [43]	55	Yes	Yes	DB*	Yes	5
Zhang et al. [22]	30	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	3
Allam et al. [45]	20	Yes	Yes	SB*	No	3
Li et al. [41]	70	Yes	Yes	SB*	No	2
Wong and Sun [44]	50	Yes	Yes	SB*	No	2
Yan et al. [30]	40	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Zhang et al. [25]	30	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2
Ma et al. [21]	44	Yes	Yes	No	No	1
Yuan et al. [16, 19, 24], Wu et al. [23]	202	Yes	No	No	Yes	1
Liu and Yuan [32]	67	Yes	Yes	No	No	1
Wang et al. [31]	60	Yes	Yes	No	No	1
Zhou and Zhang [37]	30	Yes	Yes	No	No	1
Li et al. [39]	38	Yes	Yes	No	No	1
Xie [26]	182	Yes	No	No	No	0
Yuan et al. [17]	69	Yes	No	No	No	0
Yuan et al. [20]	49	Yes	No	No	No	0
Yuan et al. [18]	40	Yes	No	No	No	0
Liu et al. [28]	38	No	No	No	No	0
H. Wu and Z. Y. [7], Wu [36]	35	No	No	No	No	0
Luo et al. [27]	35	No	No	No	No	0
Jia et al. [34]	34	No	No	No	No	0
Xi et al. [29]	32	No	No	No	No	0
Zhao et al. [42]	24	No	No	No	No	0
Ju and Feng [33]	13	No	No	No	No	0
Zhang [38]	12	No	No	No	No	0
Jiang and Wang [35]	11	No	No	No	No	0
Wang [40]	11	No	No	No	No	0
Total 27 studies	Ranges 11–202	17/27 studies had controls	12/27 studies randomized	4/27 studies were blinded	4/27 studies described dropouts	Jadad score; 5→1 study; 3→2 studies; 2→4 studies; 1→16 studies

*DS: double blinded, SB: single blinded.