Acupuncture for Insomnia: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
- Registration Number
- NCT02594670
- Lead Sponsor
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Selecting different acupoints as an combination of acupoints is a key factor to clinical efficacy of acupuncture. Different combinations of acupoints will generate different clinical efficacy. So,the purpose of this study is to determine the different clinical efficacy among three types of combinations of acupoints in the treatment of primary insomnia.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 333
- Diagnosed as insomnia based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition,2013, American psychiatric association
- PSQI score >7
- AIS score ≥6
- SDS ≤60
- SAS ≤60
- Age between 18 and 65 years old
- Not involved in other clinical trial in the lasted 6 months before screening
- Have the ability to write the informed consent.
- Breathing-related sleep disorders
- Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders
- Medication-induced sleep disorder
- Substance induced sleep disorders,such as alcohol, coffee, strong tea
- Secondary insomnia caused by systemic diseases or caused by external environment disturbance
- Pregnant or lactating women
- Combined with serious cardiovascular, lung, liver, kidney, hematopoietic system, and mental diseases
- Advanced malignant tumor or other serious debilitating diseases
- Location of acupoints combined with infection and bleeding
- Declined to acupuncture
- Couldn't provide the written informed consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) 4 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Short Form 36-item Health Survey(SF-36) 4 weeks and 8 weeks Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) 4 weeks and 8 weeks Self-anxiety scale (SAS) 4 weeks and 8 weeks Self-depression scale (SDS) 4 weeks and 8 weeks
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Trial Locations
- Locations (3)
Second Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
🇨🇳Changsha, Hunan, China
First Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
🇨🇳Changsha, Hunan, China
Hengyang hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
🇨🇳Hengyang, Hunan, China
Second Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine🇨🇳Changsha, Hunan, China