Prior to Conception: The Role of an Acupuncture Protocol in Improving Women’s Reproductive Functioning Assessed by a Pilot Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial

Table 5

Secondary study endpoints by treatment group.

	Acupuncture intervention	Lifestyle only intervention	value	Adjusted analysis
Pregnancy (%)
Incidence	4 (16)	3^1 (15)	0.927	0.992
Time from study entry to conception (weeks)	5.5	10.67	0.422	0.452
Quality of life changes (MYMOP) (mean (SD))
Changes in symptom 1	1.27 (2.1)	1.55 (1.5)	0.628	0.775
Changes in symptom 2	1.81 (1.4)	1.40 (1.1)	0.305	0.291
Changes in activity	1.80 (1.2)	0.94 (1.2)	0.033	0.047
Changes in wellbeing	0.95 (1.4)	0.05 (1.4)	0.043	0.042
Change in MYMOP profile score	1.47 (1.1)	1.03 (0.8)	0.156	0.165
Lifestyle change (BMI)
Change in BMI (mean (SD))	0.0318 (1.1)	−0.75 (1.3)	0.475	0.585
Sustained lifestyle change at 12 months (%)	10 (53)	6 (50)	0.886
Acceptability of intervention (%)
Completion of exit interview	22 (78.57)	20 (71.43)	0.314
Record of menstrual changes	26 (92.86)	16 (57.14)	0.677

One of these pregnancies was achieved through IVF due to male factor problems for the couple. The participant advised the researcher after her pregnancy that she had used acupuncture prior to this conception, her first ever after years of IVF cycles.
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