Jayanthi Sasisekaran, Xiaofan Lei
Effects of task variations on language productivity, syntactic complexity, and stuttering in children who stutter
Clinical linguistics & phonetics
given high prevalence depression elderly people appropriate interventions essential study aimed assess effects auriculotherapy depression among elderly people randomized controlled clinical trial conducted 2021 fiftytwo elderly conveniently selected randomly allocated sham n 26 intervention n 26 groups block randomization intervention group subjected four weeks auriculotherapy shenmen zero heart antidepressant master cerebral points using vaccaria seeds fixed adhesive tape sham group adhesive tapes attached points neither seeds compression elderly data collector blinded 15item geriatric depression scale used assess depression immediately four weeks intervention t1t3 statistical methods used repeated measures analysis variance covariance groups significantly differed concerning participants gender education employment p 005 adjusting confounding effects timegroup interaction significantly affected mean depression score p 00001 effect size 054 significant difference depression score sham intervention groups t1 96 25 vs 95 25 p 0263 however difference found significant t2 86 2 vs 42 12 p 00001 effect size 068 t3 93 23 vs 43 13 p 00001 effect size 065 withingroup analysis revealed significant differences depression scores intervention group t1 compared t2 t3 p 005 contrast mean depression score sham group t2 significantly lower t1 p 0003 greater t3 p 0049 auriculotherapy alleviates depression used complementary therapy elderly people depression