Auricular Acupuncture (AA) vs. Expressive Writing in Treatment of Pre-exam Anxiety - Randomised Crossover Study in Medical Students
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 37
- 主要终点
- Intensity of anxiety
研究概览
简要总结
Title of the study: Auricular acupuncture (AA) vs. expressive writing for pre-exam anxiety - a randomised crossover study
Study period: 04 / 2014 - 07 / 2014
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. T. Usichenko Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Medicine of Greifswald
Aim of the study: To investigate the anxiolytic effect of AA vs. expressive writing and vs. no intervention in students, passing the oral exams in anatomy at the University of Greifswald
Design: Prospective randomised crossover trial
Interventions: 1. AA using indwelling fixed needles, retained 24 h in situ 2. Expressive writing
Number of volunteers: N = 40
Healthy medical students at the University of Greifswald Participants of the anatomy exams in spring/summer 2014 Without previous anxiolytic, sedative and analgesic medication No pregnancy or lactating Informed consent
Outcome measures: Anxiety level Heart rate, blood pressure Salivary α-amylase
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 35 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Medical students at the University of Greifswald
- •Going to take part in oral exams of human anatomy
- •Participants without previous anxiolytic medication
- •Ability to express the thoughts and emotions ("expressive writing")
- •Written informed consent
排除标准
- •Recidivist alcoholics
- •Local auricular skin infection
- •Pregnant or lactating women
- •Participants with prosthetic or damaged cardiac valves, intracardiac and intravascular shunts, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and mitral valve prolaps (risk of bacterial endocarditis according to guidelines of AHA)
- •Participants who are unable to understand the consent form
- •History of psychiatric disease
结局指标
主要结局
Intensity of anxiety
时间窗: 2 days
State-trait-Anxiety Inventory
次要结局
- salivary alpha-amylase(1 day)
- heart rate(1 day)
- blood pressure(1 day)