Figure 1.
Selection of the patients in the standard care and the acupuncture cohort.
Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of the patients in the verum acupuncture, sham acupuncture or standard care group.
Table 2.
Personal characteristics of the patients in the verum acupuncture, sham acupuncture or standard care group.
Figure 2.
Nausea and vomiting within the past 24 hours and the past week.
Emesis was measured at that time the radiotherapy dose was 27 Gray (mean) in the verum, sham and standard care groups. Measured in all patients and in patients not receiving potent antiemetics in the verum (n = 88 and n = 77), sham (n = 95 and n = 78) and standard care group (n = 62 and n = 55).
Table 3.
Comparison of nausea occurrence between the standard care cohort and the acupuncture cohort, adjusted for confounding factors for nausea.
Figure 3.
Trust in the effect of the received treatment for preventing and reducing nausea.
The trust was stated at the sixth and the last verum or sham treatment in patients free from nausea and patients experiencing nausea after the sixth verum or sham treatment. Number of patients rating trust in antiemetic effects of received treatment at both the sixth and the last session was 183.