NCT05042661

Acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Bowel Symptom and Quality of Life in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To discuss the effects of improving the irritable bowel syndrome patients' quality of life and defecation after implementing acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical nerve stimulation.

Detailed description

This experiment will use a clinical design that will collect cases in a local teaching hospital. The way of convenience sampling will gather from the irritable bowel syndrome patients. After a questionnaire, randomly to make invention and control groups. Invention and control groups are 4 weeks and 3 weeks respectively. Each time will be for 20 minutes acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation treatment. The Control group will still have normal nursing. There will be 72 patients in two groups. The measured timing will be in the second, fourth, and eighth weeks after the prediction and invention.

Conditions

• Acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation	The intervention group performed Al-TENS therapy 3 times a week for at least 20 minutes each time for 4 consecutive weeks. The second, fourth, and eighth week after the intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-02-13
• Completion: 2023-02-13
• First posted: 2021-09-13
• Last updated: 2026-01-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan