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Application of Auriculotherapy on Nursing Professional Stress Levels

NCT01141374 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2013-01-24

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Summary

Objectives: Randomized controlled trial aimed to assess stress levels in nursing staff and review the auriculotherapy effectiveness through semi-permanent needles and seeds.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

OTHER

auriculotherapy by needles

The chinese auriculotherapy is a intervention used by Chinese Traditional Medicine in order to balance the body energy and to treat several kind of diseases using semi-permanent needles in specific points of the auricular pavilion.

OTHER

auriculotherapy by seeds

We used the three points Shenmen, Kidney, and Brain Stem with mustard seeds, 1 time per week for 8 sessions.The subjects were instructed to stimulate the points three times a day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Julia P Silva · Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
23 Years
Max Age
61 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-04-30
Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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