Reduced Pain by Mind-Body Intervention Correlates with Improvement of Shoulder Function in People with Shoulder Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Demographics.

Characteristics	Experimental group (n = 33)	Control group (n = 32)	Statistics
			χ^2 or t
Gender, n (male/female)	7/26	6/26	0.0616	0.8041
Ages, years	57.48 ± 10.33	59.28 ± 11.82	0.6530	0.5161
Sleep	0.85 ± 0.67	1.06 ± 0.67	1.2912	0.2013
Work	2.09 ± 0.98	2.09 ± 1.15	0.0108	0.9915
Recreation	2.09 ± 1.04	1.71 ± 0.89	1.5475	0.1268
Position	6.06 ± 2.85	6.19 ± 2.40	0.1938	0.8469
Pain	6.24 ± 3.21	6.59 ± 3.22	0.4403	0.6613

Values indicate mean ± SD. Scores of sleep, work, recreation, and position, which are subjective subscales of constant score, were assessed based on the previous week, while pain score was obtained by assessment based on the previous 24 h.