NCT05969353

Assessing the Effectiveness of BFA as a Non-pharmacologic Pain Management Intervention: A Randomised Sham Controlled Study

Assessing the Effectiveness of BFA as a Non-pharmacologic Pain Management Intervention: A Randomised Sham Controlled Study in Participants Who Hospitalized in Department of Internal Medicine

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Bnai Zion Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized sham controlled study that will include patients hospitalized in the internal medicine department and the orthopedics department at Bnei Zion Hospital presenting with pain from various sources with an NRS level equal to or above 4.

Detailed description

All patients will complete pain assessment according NSR and ESAS after treatment ( SHAM or BFA) one hour before and every 24 hours until discharge. If there was no sufficient improvement in pain within 24 hours (decrease of 1.5 points or more in NRS) - additional acupuncture will be performed in the contralateral ear and repeated assessments as above.

Conditions

• Assessing the Effectiveness of BFA as a Non-pharmacologic Pain Management Intervention: A Randomised Sham Controlled Study

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	accupunture	BFA

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-23
• Primary completion: 2025-12-30
• Completion: 2026-01-10
• First posted: 2023-08-01
• Last updated: 2023-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel