Table 1

Summary of study results

Experiment
No. of Qigong Practitioners
No. of Exps.
Mean* CFE Ratio
St Dev*
t-statistic
2-sided p

Qigong/Sham






Pilot study
3
4
1.041
0.046
1.845
0.162
Formal study
9
14
1.099
0.167
2.333
0.036
Replication
8
30
1.070
0.534
0.740
0.465
Pooled data
18
48
1.076
0.440
1.238
0.222
Sham/Sham






Pilot study
0
4
0.966
0.126
-0.526
0.635
Formal study
0
14
1.037
0.155
0.905
0.382
Replication
0
30
0.955
0.489
-0.491
0.627
Pooled data
0
48
0.979
0.412
-0.347
0.730

*Mean and standard deviation based on logarithmic values.

Yount et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:5   doi:10.1186/1472-6882-4-5