NCT06540664

Efficacy and Safety of Auricular Acupuncture in Treating Insomnia Post-stroke

Evaluating Efficacy and Safety of Auricular Acupuncture in Treating Insomnia Post-stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if Auricular acupuncture works to treat Insomnia Post-stroke patients. It will also learn about the safety of Auricular. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does Auricular acupuncture reduce the time it took participants to fall asleep? * Dose Auricular acupuncture increase the number of hours participants slept? * Dose Auricular acupuncture improve sleep quality as measured by The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)? * What medical problems do participants have when taking Auricular acupuncture? Researchers will compare Auricular acupuncture to a sham Auricular acupuncture (a look-alike acupuncture needles that contains no needles) to see if Auricular acupuncture works to treat insomnia post-stroke. Participants will: * Take Auricular acupuncture or sham Auricular acupuncture every 5 days for 4 weeks. * Checkups and evaluate sleep onset time, sleep hours, and sleep quality every 5 days for 4 weeks. * Keep a diary sleep of their symptoms and the number of times they use sleeping pills.

Conditions

• Insomnia, Secondary
• Post-stroke Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Auricular Acupuncture needles	Auricular Acupuncture needles 5 days in 2 weeks
OTHER	Sham Auricular Acupuncture needles	Sham Auricular Acupuncture needles 5 days in 2 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-01
• Primary completion: 2024-08-30
• Completion: 2024-10-01
• First posted: 2024-08-06
• Last updated: 2024-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Vietnam