Quality of Life and Acupuncture on Chronic Pain: A Randomized Study Before and After Performing
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Interventions
- Procedure: acupuncture
- Registration Number
- NCT01651338
- Lead Sponsor
- Islamic Azad University, Tehran
- Brief Summary
Chronic pains can affect the life quality. This study has performed in the first time in Mashhad.The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of acupuncture on the life quality of 150 patients who suffered from chronic pain. Some people like performing acupuncture because they believed it's free of risks and beneficial.
In order to achieve this purpose, we had examined the life quality of the patients before and after acupuncture. This study was randomly performed on 150 patients aged between 17-75. They were suffering from chronic pain.
The questionnaire is based on WHO QOL. The questionnaires were filled out once before acupuncture and once 12 weeks after it.
- Detailed Description
This study was completed on time.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 150
- aged between 17 - 75 years old,
- suffering from arthritis pains,
- migraine backaches,
- muscular spasms,
- pains in the neck, and in the knee
- duration of disease over 1 year
- tacking pain relief
- pregnant women
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description accupuncture, acupuncture The patients went through acupuncture for 8 -10 sessions and either once or two times a week. The number and the place of needles were 8 -12 for each patient which were located on the right place.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method quality of life improvement up to 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Dr sadre Nabavi clinic
🇮🇷Mashhad, Khorasane Razavi, Iran, Islamic Republic of