Table 5: Test-retest reliability of the acupuncture fear scale ().
Item
Score in the 1st test (mean ± SD)
Score in the 2nd test (mean ± SD)
P value*
Spearman’s rank coefficient (95% CI)
AFS1
1.000
0.597 (0.331, 0.688)**
AFS2
0.344
0.680 (0.471, 0.829)**
AFS3
0.245
0.649 (0.416, 0.774)**
AFS4
0.280
0.576 (0.299, 0.656)**
AFS5
0.441
0.598 (0.332, 0.690)**
AFS6
0.109
0.781 (0.690, 1.048)**
AFS7
1.000
0.797 (0.732, 1.090)**
AFS8
0.169
0.790 (0.714, 1.071)**
AFS9
0.500
0.750 (0.615, 0.973)**
AFS10
0.214
0.586 (0.314, 0.672)**
AFS11
0.690
0.759 (0.636, 0.994)**
AFS12
0.598
0.648 (0.414, 0.772)**
AFS13
1.000
0.569 (0.288, 0.646)**
AFS14
0.712
0.565 (0.282, 0.640)**
AFS15
0.851
0.716 (0.542, 0.899)**
AFS16
0.521
0.736 (0.584, 0.942)**
AFS: acupuncture fear scale; *paired sample -test was used; **test-retest reliability is reported with the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient; all items were highly significant at .