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Acupuncture for Promotion of Timely Delivery

NCT00379327 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 103

Last updated 2019-08-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study of 100 pregnant women is to determine if acupuncture using real needles that puncture the skin, starting at thirty seven weeks three days estimated gestational age (EGA), will increase the percentage of women delivering on or before the estimated date of confinement (EDC = 40 weeks EGA), compared with women treated identically but with placebo needles that do not puncture the skin.

Conditions

  • Delivery, Obstetric

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Acupuncture

Acupuncture administered in last three weeks of pregnancy

DEVICE

Non-puncturing Acupuncture Needle

Streitsberg non-Acupuncture Needle

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • John T Farrar, MD, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

  • Rebecca A Greenberg, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Primary Completion
2007-08-31
Completion
2007-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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