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UnknownNCT03572608
Pregnancy Success Rates of Acupuncture for in Vitro Fertilization
Clinical Effectiveness of Acupuncture to Increase Pregnancy Success Rates for Women Undergoing in Vitro Fertilization: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 120 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Ataturk University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- 23 Years – 45 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This study evaluates the effectiveness of acupuncture on pregnancy success before embryo transfer in IVF treatment in female infertile patients. Half of participants will receive acupuncture sessions before embryo transfer, while the other half will not receive.
Detailed description
Acupuncture is used for many health problem all around the World. WHO reported that acupuncture can have benefit in female infertility treatment. However, there is no enough evidence about effectiveness of acupuncture treatment in the infertility.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Acupuncture treatment | Classical acupuncture points will be used without a formal traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis in the intervention group. Neither manual needle stimulation nor moxibustion will used. The needles will left in place for 30 min and de qi was not sought. The points will be selected bilateral Heart-7, bilateral Large Intestine-4, Governing Vessel-20 and ear shenmen for the first session. Bilateral Conception Vessel-3,4,6, bilateral Liver-3, bilateral Stomach-30, bilateral Spleen-6, bilateral Governing Vessel-20 will be used for the second session. Bilateral Large Intestine-4, bilateral Spleen-6,9, bilateral Stomach-36 will be used for the last session. All acupuncture points will be selected and localized on the basis of the WHO Standardised Acupuncture Point Location. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-06-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-09-01
- Completion
- 2018-10-01
- First posted
- 2018-06-28
- Last updated
- 2018-06-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03572608. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.