NCT02594670

Acupuncture for Insomnia: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Acupuncture Based on Different Acupoints Combination for Insomnia: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 333 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Selecting different acupoints as an combination of acupoints is a key factor to clinical efficacy of acupuncture. Different combinations of acupoints will generate different clinical efficacy. So,the purpose of this study is to determine the different clinical efficacy among three types of combinations of acupoints in the treatment of primary insomnia.

Conditions

• Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	DU20 and HT7 combination	acupoints combination includes Baihui (DU20) and Shenmen(HT7),which was considered as the optimal clinical efficay among various combinations of acupoints.
OTHER	DU20 and SP6 combination	acupoints combination of Baihui (DU20) and Sanyinjiao (SP6), which should have some clinical efficay among various combinations of acupoints.
OTHER	DU20 and SA combination	Combination of Baihui (DU20) and a Sham acupoint (SA), which should have least clinical efficacy among these three types of acupoints combinations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2015-11-03
• Last updated: 2015-11-03

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: China