[Clinical observation on the relation between the confident degree of the patient with pain in acupuncture and moxibustion with the therapeutic effect].

OBJECTIVE: To understand preliminary relation between patient's confident degree in acupuncture and moxibustion with the therapeutic effect on pain. METHODS: Fifteen cases with pain were investigated. The confident degree for acupuncture and moxibustion and pain degree were evaluated by the patient with visual analogue scale (VAS), and the pain VAS scores before and after acupuncture were recorded as the indexes for assessment of the therapeutic effect. RESULTS: After acupuncture treatment, the average pain VAS score was decreased by 3.3 +/- 2.8 (P< 0 . 5). There was no significant correlativity between the patient's confident degree VAS and the pain VAS change rate before and after the treatment (R = 0.62, P = 0.83). CONCLUSION: There is no significant correlativity between the confident degree of the patient of pain in acupuncture and moxibustion and clinical therapeutic effect.