Auriculotherapy as a Coping Strategy in Professional Nursing

NCT01424072 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2013-05-31

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Summary

This randomized clinical trial aimed at evaluating the auriculotherapy as coping strategies in 75 nursing professionals in a University Hospital.

Conditions

  • Stress, Psychological
  • Coping Behavior

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

  • Leonice FS Kurebayashi · University of Sao 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
2010-07-31
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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