Hansen P E, Hansen J H, Bentzen O
Clin Otolaryngol Allied Sci. 1982 Oct;7(5):325-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.1982.tb01914.x.
In a double-blind controlled trial the effect of traditional Chinese acupuncture versus placebo acupuncture was evaluated among 17 patients (8 females and 9 males, mean age 45.7 years) with chronic (mean disease duration 5.3 years) unilateral tinnitus. None of the patients had any treatable otological disease. All patients suffered from daily tinnitus, the intensity of which was recorded by the patients themselves every day during a period of 15 weeks. Each patient was treated by traditional Chinese acupuncture as well as placebo acupuncture following randomization (Figure 1). Each period of treatment comprised 2 treatments a week for 3 weeks. Throughout the whole investigation a period effect was recorded, insignificant in the acupuncture-placebo group, but significant in the placebo-acupuncture group (Friedman analysis of variance) (Table 4). There was no significant difference between traditional Chinese acupuncture and placebo (Wilcoxon test, P greater than 0.05, one-tailed). There was no relation between the patients' subjective statements and the results of sound balance measurements as an objective standard of tinnitus (Spearman test).
在一项双盲对照试验中，对17例慢性（平均病程5.3年）单侧耳鸣患者（8名女性和9名男性，平均年龄45.7岁）评估了传统中医针灸与安慰剂针灸的效果。所有患者均无任何可治疗的耳科疾病。所有患者均患有每日发作的耳鸣，在15周期间，患者每天自行记录耳鸣强度。随机分组后，每位患者均接受传统中医针灸和安慰剂针灸治疗（图1）。每个治疗周期包括每周2次治疗，共3周。在整个研究过程中，记录到一个周期效应，在针灸-安慰剂组中不显著，但在安慰剂-针灸组中显著（Friedman方差分析）（表4）。传统中医针灸与安慰剂之间无显著差异（Wilcoxon检验，P大于0.05，单尾）。患者的主观陈述与作为耳鸣客观标准的声音平衡测量结果之间无相关性（Spearman检验）。
