Sleep Ameliorating Effects of Acupuncture in a Psychiatric Population

Table 1

Overview of the descriptive statistics of the convenient sample.

		Schizophrenia (SD)			Depression (SD)		Healthy control (SD)
	Total	Waiting list	Acupuncture	Total	Waiting list	Acupuncture	Total
Men	6	3	3	4	2	2	3
Women	10	5	5	12	6	6	5
Length of illness	13.56 (1.59)	12.63 (5.90)^a	14.50 (7.07)^a	5.94 (1.05)	4.38 (3.54)	7.50 (4.41)	0
Age	44.25 (2.44)	42.25 (10.99)	46.25 (8.57)	50.94 (1.33)	52.88 (5.59)^b	49.00 (4.54)	36.75 (12.43)

According to the one-way ANOVA (groups as between subjects factor) at baseline: ^aMean is significantly different (𝑃<0.05) from the depression waiting list group. ^bMean is significantly different (𝑃<0.05) from the healthy control group.