NCT00917215

Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Asthma

Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Asthma: A Randomized, Sham-acupuncture and Waiting-list Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

What is the trend of changes in asthmatic patients' daily peak expiratory flow (PEF) variability, pulmonary function, and quality of life (QOL) with acupuncture treatment on specific acupoints (CV22 and bilateral LU5, ST40, BL13, EXB1) compared with minimal acupuncture treatment (sham control group) on non-acupoints, and no acupuncture treatment (waiting list control group)?

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Disposable stainless steel acupuncture (0.2mmx4mm)	For active acupuncture group, needles were inserted into nine acupoints (CV22 and bilateral LU5, ST40, BL13, EXB1)with De-qi three times a week for 4 weeks. For sham acupuncture group, Nine non-acupoints corresponded with each active acupoint were treated with minimal penetration into skin three times a week for 4 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-04-01
• Completion: 2009-04-01
• First posted: 2009-06-10
• Last updated: 2009-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea