Intervention of the Syndrome-Position Point Selection Method on Idiopathic Tinnitus of Phlegm-Fire Stagnation Pattern: A Randomized Controlled Study

Table 2

Baseline data and sociodemographic characteristics of the patients.

Observation indexes	Treatment group	Control group	t/X^2	P^△
Gender (n)	Male = 24, Female = 26	Male = 21, Female = 29	0.364	0.546
Average age (years)	50.10 ± 16.11	47.40 ± 14.68	0.876	0.383
Duration of tinnitus (months)
<3 months (n)	17 (34%)	25 (50%)	2.627	0.105
3–12 months (n)	19 (38%)	12 (24%)	2.291	0.130
>12 months (n)	14 (28%)	13 (26%)	0.051	0.822
TSI (points)	12.08 ± 3.62	11.84 ± 3.06	0.358	0.721
Spiegel (points)	17.28 ± 4.69	15.72 ± 3.94	1.801	0.075
SDS (points)	31.53 ± 5.95	31.55 ± 5.14	0.018	0.986
SAS (points)	31.25 ± 4.25	31.83 ± 4.13	0.692	0.491

Note. The values are the mean ± standard deviation. △Statistical significance was set at using the one-way ANOVA.
TSI, Tinnitus Severity Inventory; Spiegel, Spiegel Questionnaire; SDS, Self-Rating Depression Scale; SAS, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale.