NCT00689897

Psychological Outcomes From a Study of Acupuncture Treatment on Experimentally Primary Dysmenorrhea

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the associations between deqi, the effects of acupuncture and personality in primary dysmenorrhea and to characterize the nature of the deqi phenomenon on terms of the prevalence of sensations as well as the uniqueness of the sensations underlying the deqi experiment.

Detailed description

The mechanism, by which acupuncture works is not yet clear, therefore there is no unequivocal consensus about styles and sensations of acupuncture. whether psychological factor has influences on the effects of acupuncture? This study will adopt international practices such as visual analogue scale (VAS) to objective evaluation. The confident degree, feeling degree for acupuncture and pain intensity were evaluated by the patient with VAS, and the pain VAS scores before and after acupuncture were recorded as the indexes for assessment of the therapeutic effect.

Conditions

• Primary Dysmenorrhea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	acupuncture, Deqi	Immediately after insertion of a needle, it is manually rotated backwards and forwards to induce the DeQi sensation.
PROCEDURE	acupuncture, Non-Deqi	After insertion of a needle, no manipulation is applied, and the needle is retained for 30 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-06-01
• Primary completion: 2010-09-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2008-06-04
• Last updated: 2011-06-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China