Statistical analysis
This study adopted an incomplete randomized controlled trial design, with Type I Error α = 0.05 and power of test (1 − β) = 0.85. The PASS 15.0 software (NCSS, LLC, Kaysville, UT, USA) was used to estimate the sample size. According to a meta-analysis by Kwok et al. [SPSS 25.0 statistical software (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA) was used for data analysis. We expressed measurement data as the median (M) and inter-quartile range (IQR) from the rank-sum test results and expressed count data as % from the χ