Traditional Chinese Medicine-Guided Dietary Intervention for Male Youth Undergoing Drug Detoxification: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 10

Change in the sum of scores of yin-blood deficiency syndrome elements in the two groups.

Indicators	Intervention group (n = 62)	Control group (n = 61)	t value	value
Baseline value	473.11 ± 194.16	416.49 ± 170.29	1.718	0.088
Postintervention	407.55 ± 209.53	463.78 ± 240.57	−1.383	0.169
Postintervention difference (post-pre)	−57.20 (−155.20, 21.93)	23.50 (−76.40, 157.30)	−3.419	0.002
Improvement (%)	13.86	−11.35
Intragroup t (P)	3.579 (0.001)	−1.723 (0.090)

Intragroup t (P) represents the statistics and value of paired t-test compared with that before treatment. Mann–Whitney U test was adopted.