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Acupuncture or MBSR for Patients With Fatigue and MS

NCT01864707 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 104

Last updated 2016-01-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The main aim of this trial is to evaluate whether additional acupuncture or mindfulness-based stress reduction is more efficacious than usual care only to reduce fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Usual care + acupuncture

Patients of this group receive a standardized acupuncture treatment over 12 weeks in addition to usual care

OTHER

usual care+mbsr

Patients of this group receive mindfulness based stress reduction in addition to usual care

OTHER

usual care

Patients in this group will follow the same treatment for fatigue they received at study entry

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claudia M Witt, MD · Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

  • Friedemann Paul, MD · The NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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