[Retracted] A Multicentre Randomized Controlled Clinical Study of Cross Electro-Nape-Acupuncture (CENA) for the Treatment of Pseudobulbar Palsy in Patients with Tracheotomy Intubation for Severe Cerebral Haemorrhage

Table 4

Baseline data and characteristics ( ± s).

Item		CENA group	Electro-acupuncture group	Acupuncture group
Sample size (n)		40	40	40
Age (year)		55.87 ± 9.70	55.33 ± 10.11	55.88 ± 9.18
Gender (n (%))	Male	24 (60)	26 (65)	25 (62.5)
	Female	16 (40)	14 (35)	15 (37.5)
Course of the disease (d)		18.25 ± 3.73	18.68 ± 4.04	18.28 ± 3.73
Lesion location (n (%))	Cortex or subcortex	17 (42.5)	19 (47.5)	19 (47.5)
	Internal capsule or basal ganglia	23 (57.5)	21 (52.5)	21 (52.5)
Indexes before treatment M (P25,P75)	WST	4 (3, 5)	4 (3, 5)	4 (3, 5)
	FDA	10 (3.25, 14)	10 (4.25, 14)	11 (4.25, 15)
	TCRGS	4 (3, 4)	4 (3, 4)	4 (3, 4)
	ChSWAL-QOL	97 (87, 124.75)	99.5 (87, 124.75)	100 (87.25, 129)

Note. Age, gender, disease duration, and location of lesions were not statistically significant in the three groups, , and were comparable. SWT: No differences were found between the three groups (h = 0.7, , ); FDA: no differences were found between the three groups (h = 0.49, , ); TCRGS: no differences were found between the three groups (h = 0.047, , ); and ChSWAL-QOL: no differences were found between the three groups (h = 0.1.003, , ).