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Table 1 Schedule of enrolment, interventions, and assessments

From: Moxibustion for cancer-related fatigue: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

  1. BFI Brief Fatigue Inventory, FACT-F Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Fatigue, EORTC QLQ-C30 European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire, MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, CHDE Questionnaire for Cold-Heat & Deficiency-Excess Patternization
  2. aThe blinding and credibility tests will be performed only for the moxibustion and sham moxibustion groups
  3. bThe laboratory test includes complete blood count and differential count, absolute neutrophil count, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, total bilirubin, gamma-glutamyl transferase, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, albumin, glucose, hemoglobin A1c, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, thyroid-stimulating hormone, free thyroxine, and human chorionic gonadotropin urine test (only for women in their childbearing years at the screening visit)