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Acupuncture for Insomnia: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02594670 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 333

Last updated 2015-11-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Selecting different acupoints as an combination of acupoints is a key factor to clinical efficacy of acupuncture. Different combinations of acupoints will generate different clinical efficacy. So,the purpose of this study is to determine the different clinical efficacy among three types of combinations of acupoints in the treatment of primary insomnia.

Conditions

  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

DU20 and HT7 combination

acupoints combination includes Baihui (DU20) and Shenmen(HT7),which was considered as the optimal clinical efficay among various combinations of acupoints.

OTHER

DU20 and SP6 combination

acupoints combination of Baihui (DU20) and Sanyinjiao (SP6), which should have some clinical efficay among various combinations of acupoints.

OTHER

DU20 and SA combination

Combination of Baihui (DU20) and a Sham acupoint (SA), which should have least clinical efficacy among these three types of acupoints combinations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Zenghui Yue · Hunan University of Chinese Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2017-08-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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