NCT03148223

Auriculotherapy in the Treatment of Dysmenorrhea

Effect of Auriculotherapy in the Treatment of Dysmenorrhea: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sorocaba · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to determine if auriculotherapy is effective in the treatment of dysmenorrhoea. This intervention consists of fixation of yellow mustard seeds at specific points of the auricular pavilion (or area), with opaque tape. Half of the participants will have specific ear pinch points stimulated by mustard seeds fixed with opaque plaster, while the other half will have only the adhesive plasters fixed, without the seeds for stimulation.

Detailed description

Primary dysmenorrhoea is responsible for the most part of dissatisfactions in the female class, in the face of discomforts which are caused monthly. For this, the income index of this woman in the work environment tends to reduce, thus harming the development of every sector to which she responds. The expected effects, after the intervention, will be positive, favoring a considerable improvement of the symptoms reported by the women. We chose auriculotherapy because it is a non-medicated, noninvasive intervention that is inexpensive.

Conditions

• Primary Dysmenorrhea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	auriculotherapy	The participants will be submitted to a session per week with duration of 20 minutes, for three consecutive months, to fix the adhesives. The points selected for stimulation, according to Chinese atrial mapping, are: uterus, endocrine, ovary, pituitary, shen men, sympathetic, and liver. Participants will be advised to remain with the stickers fixed to the auricle for six days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-15
• Primary completion: 2018-08-30
• Completion: 2018-10-15
• First posted: 2017-05-10
• Last updated: 2018-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil