Characteristic of Clinical Studies on Baduanjin during 2000–2019: A Comprehensive Review

Table 5

Baduanjin styles applied in 767 clinical studies including RCT, CCS, CS, and CR.

Baduanjin style	No. of study	Frequency (%)
Unspecified style	445	58.0
The style of State General Administration of Sport of China in 2003	264	34.4
Homemade style	18	2.3
Others	12	1.6
The style of Chinese Health Qigong Association	11	1.4
Deng Tietao style	9	1.2
The style of Chinese Traditional Sport Health Preservation	5	0.7
The style of Beijing Sport University	3	0.4

RCT, randomized clinical trial; CCS, nonrandomized controlled clinical studies (quasirandomized clinical trial or observational studies such as cohort or case-control studies); CS, case series; CR, case report.