Deqi Sensation in Placebo Acupuncture: A Crossover Study on Chinese Medicine Students

Table 2

VAS score in intervention Phase I and Phase II.

	Mean (SD)		𝑃 value
	Group A	Group B
Between group comparison
Phase I	1.43 (1.61)	2.33 (1.89)	0.053*
Phase II	2.60 (2.29)	1.99 (2.02)	0.282**
Within group comparison
𝑃 value	0.017^#	0.690^##

∗Independent-samples 𝑡-test, 𝑡=1.976. **Independent samples 𝑡-test, 𝑡=−1.087.
^#Paired-samples 𝑡-test, 𝑡=−2.745. ^##Paired-samples 𝑡-test, 𝑡=0.580.