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

Table 7

Change in the sum of scores of yang-qi deficiency syndrome elements in the two groups.

Indicators	Intervention group (n = 62)	Control group (n = 61)	t value	value
Baseline value	515.78 ± 215.61	452.29 ± 210.08	1.654	0.101
Postintervention	475.00 ± 233.86	545.91 ± 284.95	−1.510	0.134
Postintervention difference (post-pre)	−38.05 (−131.48, 82.13)	67.80 (−47.85, 244.90)	−3.225	0.003
Improvement (%)	7.91	−20.70
Intragroup t (P)	1.785 (0.079)	−2.686 (0.009)

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