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Characterization of Deqi Sensation and Acupuncture Effect Table 1 The common questionnaires in deqi assessment.
Scale Year Group Feature Vincent questionnaire 1989 Vincent et al. [17 ] The sensations primarily coming from pain questionnaires Park questionnaire 2002 Park et al. [10 ] Macpherson questionnaire 2006 MacPherson and Asghar [8 ] Separating the deqi sensations and pain SNSQ 2008 White et al. [21 ] A valid, rigorous, soundly grounded, and patient-centered measurement, enabling the discrimination between pain and deqi German version of SNSQ 2011 Pach et al. [22 ] For the language and cultural differences, the original questionnaire could not be reproduced SASS 2005 Kong et al. [23 ] One supplementary row was left blank for subjects to describe perceptions in their own words MASS 2007 Kong et al. [1 ] Including 12 descriptors, one supplementary row to describe perceptions, and two supplementaries (Acupuncture Sensation Spreading Scale and Mood Scale) C-MMASS 2012 Yu et al. [24 ] Chinese version of the MASS with “sharp pain’’ removed Mao questionnaire 2007 Mao et al. [25 ] Including 11 needling sensations, an open-ended question of additional deqi sensations, the situation of PSC, and 5 specifically designed items Deqi composite 2007 Hui et al. [9 ] An approach proposed for reducing the complex sensation profile of deqi to a single value Kou questionnaire 2007 Kou et al. [26 ] Evaluating 5 deqi sensations and anxiety using VAS