Analysis of the Registration Information on Interventions of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Trials in the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

Table 9

The information about sham acupuncture in control group in register clinical trials of acupuncture-moxibustion.

	The study design in control group			Operational approach in details of sham acupuncture
	Acupuncture versus the other interventions without acupuncture (e.g., drugs and physiotherapy)	Acupuncture versus the other interventions (e.g., different acupuncture method)	Acupuncture versus sham acupuncture	Names of points	Material	Stimulation approach	Depth of insertion	Duration of treatment sessions	No related information
Platform
ANZCTR	3	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	6
ChiCTR	41	16	49	20	0	8	0	0	21
CRIS	12	9	9	2	0	0	1	0	6
Clinical Trials.gov	81	46	74	23	1	13	15	0	22
CTRI	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
RPCEC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DRKS	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
IRCT	11	2	8	7	0	0	0	1	0
ISRCTN.org	4	6	7	5	0	0	1	0	1
JPRN	3	8	7	2	0	2	0	0	3
PAC-TR	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SLCTR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
NTR	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
ReBec	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	1
EU-CTR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TCTR	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Countries of recruitment
China	63	31	78	32	1	12	2	0	31
United States	20	18	12	5	0	1	3	0	3
Korea	22	9	16	5	0	2	1	0	8
Other countries	49	38	49	14	0	8	8	1	18
Unclear	9	2	9	3	0	0	5	0	1
Total	163	98	164	59	1	23	19	1	61