NCT01558154

Comparison of Treatment Effect of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine on Depression in China and America

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Comparison of different assessment methods to evaluate the treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on minor and mild depression.

Detailed description

Significant differences show on the evaluation of treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on depression in China and America. Choose minor and mild depression patients as trials. One hundred and sixty trials will be included and randomly divided into Chinese medicine group (n=40), acupuncture group (n=40), traditional Chinese medicine psychology group (n=40) and physical treatment group (n=40). Time points of assessment are before treatment, 1 week, 2 weeks, 4weeks, 6 weeks and 12 weeks post treatment.The assessment tools are series of psychological questionnaires. And study the mechanism of treatment efficacy assessment variances by different methods.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Chinese herbs	Chinese herbs special for depression
PROCEDURE	acupuncture	six acupuncture point including DU20, EX HN3, EX HN1, PC6,HT7,SP6,special for depression
OTHER	Psychotherapy	Thought Imprint Psychotherapy under lower Resistance State
DEVICE	Transcranial magnetic stimulation	Give magnetic stimulation at head

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-01
• Completion: 2014-07-01
• First posted: 2012-03-20
• Last updated: 2012-03-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China