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The Complementary Effect of Ear Acupressure on Older Patients With Chronic Insomnia

NCT00832468 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2009-12-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Ear acupressure is commonly applied to treat insomnia in Oriental clinical practice but lacking the evidence of the randomized controlled trial (RCT)of ear acupressure on insomnia. In this study, a RCT is conducted to investigate the complementary effect of ear acupressure on chronic insomnia in old adults.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

ear acupressure

The ear acupressure that is used involved a 0.3 cm-sized magnetic pellet on a 1 cm size sticky patch (Ching-Ming Co., Taiwan), which was placed on the bilateral ear Shenmen points; each of the points were pressed once a second for one minute (60 times) before sleep every night. The time period of the treatment course was four weeks.

OTHER

sham ear acupressure

The sham ear acupressure that was used involved a 1 cm size sticky patch placed on the bilateral ear Shenmen points. There was no magnetic pellet attached to the sticker and no need to press it.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yen-ying Kung, MD · Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-12-31
Primary Completion
2009-11-30
Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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