NCT05152095

Therapeutic Effect of Self-administered Auricular Acupressure on Insomnia Induced by Anxiety

Therapeutic Effect of Self-administered Auricular Acupressure on Insomnia Induced by Anxiety: A Randomized Sham-controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 112 (estimated)
• Sponsor: IMU University, Malaysia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a sham-controlled randomized trial to identify the effectiveness of treating insomnia induced by anxiety with self-administered auricular acupressure in Malaysia.

Detailed description

112 subjects with insomnia and anxiety who fit to the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be recruited into the trial. After initial screening, subjects will be randomly allocated to Vaccaria seed tapes (experimental arm) or non-Varracia seed plain tapes (sham comparator arm). On the sixth day for the trial (after 5 days of daily auricular acupressure), the ISI and HAM-A score of subjects will be reassessed again. The subjects have to stop applying auricular acupressure for the next five days and reassess their ISI and HAM-A score again on the eleventh day.

Conditions

• Insomnia Due to Anxiety and Fear

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Vaccaria seed (Wang Bu Liu Xing) pre-attached to adhesive tape used for auricular acupressure	Apply on auricular acupoints, Shenmen and Occiput, apply pressure for 3 minutes, 5 times per day, at the interval of 2 \~ 3 hours, for 5 days.
OTHER	Plain ear adhesive tape	Apply on Shenmen and Occiput without applying pressure for 5 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-13
• Primary completion: 2022-01-01
• Completion: 2022-01-31
• First posted: 2021-12-09
• Last updated: 2021-12-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Malaysia