NCT01782040

Auriculotherapy in the Cares to the Premenstrual Syndrome

Auriculotherapy in the Cares to the Premenstrual Syndrome: Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 21 Years – 44 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a collection of physical and emotional symptoms related to a woman's menstrual cycle. These symptoms occurring only during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle that are of sufficient severity to interfere with some aspects of life of these women, reflecting also in interpersonal relationships, workplace and in their productivity. For these reasons, this research was conducted with the nursing staff of the Samaritan Hospital in order to verify the effectiveness of auricular acupuncture to alleviate some of the symptoms of PMS.

Detailed description

The chinese auriculotherapy is a intervention used by Chinese Traditional Medicine in order to balance the body energy and to treat several kind of diseases using semipermanent needles in specific points of the auricular pavilion.

Conditions

• Premenstrual Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Auriculotherapy group	It was used semipermanent needles (1.5mm) to stimulate points, once on a week, during 8 sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2013-02-01
• Last updated: 2013-02-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil