Efficacy of Fufang E’jiao Jiang in the Treatment of Patients with Qi and Blood Deficiency Syndrome: A Real-World Prospective Multicenter Study with a Patient Registry

Table 8

Comparison of the FS-14 scores after four weeks of FEJ treatment in the SF and IDA groups after calibration for covariance.

	Baseline	4 weeks	Adjust the four-week score after the baseline			F value	value
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean	SE	95 CI
FS-14 scores						14.846	<0.001
SF group (2230)	7.60 ± 3.00	5.74 ± 3.49^▲	5.83	0.13	[5.58, 6.08]
IDA group (489)	8.40 ± 2.98	7.01 ± 3.65^▲	6.77	0.21	[6.37, 7.17]
Mental fatigue						0.035	0.853
SF group (2230)	2.99 ± 1.16	2.78 ± 1.14^▲	2.78	0.04	[2.70, 2.86]
IDA group (489)	2.98 ± 1.06	2.77 ± 0.96^▲	2.76	0.06	[2.64, 2.89]
Physical fatigue						18.359	<0.001
SF group (2230)	4.61 ± 2.57	2.96 ± 3.15^▲	3.06	0.12	[2.83, 3.28]
IDA group (489)	5.42 ± 2.69	4.24 ± 3.46^▲	4.00	0.19	[3.64, 4.37]

FS-14, fatigue scale-14; FEJ, Fufang E’jiao Jiang; SF, subhealth fatigue; IDA, iron deficiency anemia; SD, standard deviation; SE, standard error; and CI, confidence interval. Data are expressed as the mean, mean ± SD, SE, or 95% CI. Compared with the same group at baseline, ^△, ^▲; with the same time point in the SF group, , .