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Is Auriculotherapy Responsible for Improvements on Anxiety Students' Prior and After Examinations?

NCT05042778 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2022-11-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

As the investigators have shown before, there was a tendency for a reduction of anxiety levels on university students after 30 minutes, with auriculotherapy treatment before examinations have started. However, the effect was effective and clinically significant after 48 hours comparing auriculotherapy with placebo and no treatment. In this sense, the investigators intend to perform a new study with a large sample and introduce a new hypothesis. So, this study aims to detect the clinical effect of two auriculotherapy techniques on the anxiety levels of university students.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Auriculotherapy

A licensed acupuncturist (holder of civil liability insurance) with more than nine years of experience with this technique will apply auriculotherapy. Indwelling fixed semipermanent needles embedded in a skin-coloured adhesive tape will be used at the actives auricular points around the vagus nerve area.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Escola Superior Saúde Santa Maria

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Universidade do Porto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jorge Machado, Ph.D · Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-01
Primary Completion
2021-12-03
Completion
2021-12-03

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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