Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia: An Open-Label Pragmatic Study on Effects on Disease Severity, Neuropathic Pain Features, and Pain Catastrophizing

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the clinimetric indeces and suscales total at baseline (1) and at the end of the eight consecutive weeks of acupuncture treatment (2).

		Mean	Standard deviation	95% confidence interval for mean
				Lower bound	Upper bound
FIQ-R total	1	60.79	19.41	56.85	64.72
	2	46.40	22.59	41.82	50.98
FIQ-R function	1	17.54	6.49	16.22	18.85
	2	14.66	10.67	12.49	16.82
FIQ-R overall impact	1	11.03	5.43	9.93	12.13
	2	7.60	5.54	6.48	8.73
FIQ-R symptoms	1	32.21	9.55	30.27	34.15
	2	24.94	10.66	22.78	27.10
PDQ	1	19.77	7.68	18.21	21.33
	2	15.27	7.39	13.77	16.77
PHQ15	1	14.58	5.41	13.49	15.68
	2	10.47	5.46	9.36	11.58
TPC	1	16.92	1.30	16.65	17.18
	2	9.46	4.32	8.58	10.33
PCS total	1	27.54	12.43	25.02	30.06
	2	22.11	10.85	19.92	24.31
Helplessness	1	12.07	6.14	10.83	13.32
	2	9.22	5.38	8.13	10.31
Rumination	1	12.08	5.03	11.06	13.10
	2	9.98	4.58	9.05	10.91
Magnification	1	3.39	2.14	2.95	3.82
	2	2.93	2.02	2.52	3.34

Abbreviations: FIQ-R = revised fibromyalgia impact questionnaire; PDQ = painDETECT questionnaire; PHQ15 = patient health questionnaire 15-item; TPC = tender point count; PCS = pain catastrophizing scale.