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Acupuncture in the Modulation of Peripheral Oxidative Stress Insomnia

NCT03447587 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2021-04-29

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Summary

A randomized controlled trial involving 140 subjects with (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) DSM-5 insomnia disorder after excluding those with other medical conditions, psychiatric disorders, and sleep disorders that may cause insomnia. The subjects will be randomly assigned to either acupuncture treatment or sham acupuncture (control group) in a 1:1 ratio. The acupuncture treatment group will receive acupuncture treatments using a semi-standardized protocol. In a similar way, the sham acupuncture control group will receive acupuncture using validated non-invasive sham acupuncture needles. Both subjective (the sleep questionnaire and sleep diary) and objective (actigraphy) outcome measures will be recorded at baseline and at 1- and 5-week post-treatment. Fasting blood samples will be taken on the morning of the assessments at these time points to measure the oxidative stress parameters, including the malondialdehyde (MDA) level, and the glutathione peroxidase (GPx), paraoxonase (PON), and arylesterase (ARE) activities. The primary outcome is sleep efficiency, measured using a 7-day sleep diary and the oxidative stress parameters at 1-week post-treatment.

Conditions

  • Insomnia Chronic

Interventions

OTHER

Electroacupuncture

Each subject will be treated with predefined acupoints including bilateral Ear-Shenmen, Touwei (ST8), Sishencong (EX-HN1), and unilateral Yintang (EXHN3) and Baihui (GV20) on the head (total 8 needles). Subject's current symptoms will be ascertained using a Traditional Chinese Medicine symptom checklist and eight additional acupoints will therefore be selected and needled based on their clinical judgements. The acupuncture treatment will consistent of two sessions per week (30 minutes) for 4 consecutive weeks.

OTHER

Sham acupuncture

Subjects will be treated at 1 cm posteriorly and laterally adjacent to the same acupoints as the traditional acupuncture group using validated non-invasive sham needles. Subjects will also be assessed with Traditional Chinese Medicine checklist. The acupuncturist, setting, treatment frequency, and duration of the treatment course will be the same as in the traditional acupuncture group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    lead OTHER

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
2018-03-15
Primary Completion
2019-09-20
Completion
2019-09-20

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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