In our preliminary study, the change of subjective symptoms in the treatment group was 7.21 ± 4.36 and 4.35 ± 3.15 in the control group. Taking α as 0.05, β as 0.2 with a 2-sided test, and considering a dropout of 20%, 72 patients will be needed totally.
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