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Auricular Acupuncture and Hot Flashes During Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy

NCT06369168 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 107

Last updated 2025-12-15

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Summary

With this clinical trial we investigate whether auricular acupuncture during adjuvant endocrine therapy has an improving effect on hot flashes, which are often perceived as psychologically and physically stressful in self-assessment of women with breast cancer.

Empirical studies indicate that body acupuncture has positive effects on hot flashes. As auricular acupuncture offers a number of advantages over body acupuncture, a three-armed randomised controlled research design is being used to investigate whether hot flashes caused by endocrine therapy are also reduced by ear acupuncture. Balanced ear acupuncture will be compared with NADA ear acupuncture in terms of efficacy and effectiveness. In addition, the effects of the two forms of therapy on the patients' individual quality of life, fatigue, stress perception and sleep quality will be analysed.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

auricular acupuncture

two auricular acupuncture methods are compared with each other and with no treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kliniken Essen-Mitte

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-06-17
Primary Completion
2025-09-08
Completion
2025-09-08

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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