NCT03005821

Chinese Pediatric Massage on Children With Acute Diarrhea: a Randomized Sham Massage Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (actual)
• Sponsor: Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Chinese pediatric massage as an add-on therapy while comparing with sham massage both on the basis of usual care for 0-6 years old children with acute diarrhea.

Detailed description

Chinese pediatric massage has been practised as an option for the treatment of pediatric diarrhea for hundreds of years (since Ming Dynasty). The history of Chinese pediatric massage for health promotion is much longer, it can be traced back to more than one thousand years ago (652 AD). Many of the acupoints adopted in Chinese pediatric massage are unique if it is compared with those for adult massage. The manipulation is found to be easily accepted by children, as the strength of massage is gentle and soft. No severe adverse reaction in regards of Chinese pediatric massage was reported, the mild adverse reaction such as skin abrasion can be completely avoided with correct operating instructions.

Conditions

• Diarrhea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Chinese pediatric massage therapy + usual care
OTHER	Sham massage therapy + usual care

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-10-25
• Completion: 2019-10-25
• First posted: 2016-12-29
• Last updated: 2019-10-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China