NCT06107777

The Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture on Psychological Stress

The Efficacy of Pharmacopuncture on Inpatients With Psychological Stress Caused by Traffic Accidents: A Practical Randomized Control Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jaseng Medical Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a double blind, randomized controlled trail. Condition/disease: Psychological Stress treatment Intervention:Pharmacopuncture

Detailed description

"Pharmacopuncture is a treatment that combines 2 of the most frequented Korean medicine treatment methods - traditional acupuncture and herbal medicine - by injecting herbal medicine extract at acupoints. This treatment is known to be an important part of Korean medicine treatment. However, there has been no specific value for the effect of this treatment. Therefore, the investigators are going to conduct a practical randomized controlled trials to verify the efficacy and safety of Pharmacopuncture on Psychological Stress. From October 2023 to December 2024, the investigators are going to collect 50 inpatients who are suffering from Psychological Stress with the HADS-A(Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-anxiety) or HADS-D(Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Depression) over 8 after injury by traffic accident(TA). For experimental group(n=25), the investigators will conduct Pharamacopuncture on 5 mandatory acupoints and 3 additional acupoints if needed durling the hospitalization and other Korean medical treatment. For control group(n=25), just Korean medical treatment except Pharamacopuncture on mandatory acupoints and additional acupoints will be conducted. For these two groups, the investigators will compare Psychological stress intensity scale: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), NRS of Anxiety, NRS of Depression, NRS of Physical pain, Sleeping disorder intensity scale: Korean version of the Insomnia Severity Index(ISI-K), subjective stress scale caused by traumatic events: Revised Version of the Impact of Event Scale of Korea(IES-R-K), EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D-5L) and Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)."

Conditions

• Psychological Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Pharmacopuncture	Pharmacopuncture is a treatment that combines 2 of the most frequented Korean medicine treatment methods - traditional acupuncture and herbal medicine - by injecting herbal medicine extract at acupoints.
PROCEDURE	Korean medical treatment	acupuncture treatment, chuna, pharmacoacupuncture, Korean herbal medicine

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-20
• Primary completion: 2024-06-26
• Completion: 2024-06-26
• First posted: 2023-10-30
• Last updated: 2024-08-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea