The Effect of Acupuncture on Anxiety and Working Memory
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 90
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Memory task
研究概览
简要总结
This study endeavors to examine the relationship between acupuncture, anxiety, and performance on a test of working memory. In the study, all participants will complete the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) survey to determine how anxious they are at the moment and how anxious they tend to be in general. Then ½ of subjects will receive acupuncture for 20 minutes and ½ will rest quietly for 20 minutes. After this period, all subjects will again complete the STAI survey. Then all subjects will complete the Automated Operations Span Task (AOSPAN) which is a computerized test of working memory. Statistical analysis will be performed to determine if acupuncture had any effect on State-level anxiety and on performance on the AOSPAN.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 30 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Undergraduate University student
- •Fluent in English
- •Willing to receive acupuncture
- •Aged 18-30
- •In good health
- •Not pregnant
- •Not breastfeeding
排除标准
- •Not an Undergraduate University student
- •Not fluent in English
- •Unwilling to receive acupuncture
- •Under 18 years of age or older than 30 years of age
- •Chronic disease
- •Breastfeeding
研究组 & 干预措施
Control Group
Participants will be asked to make themselves comfortable lying on a massage table for 20 minutes.
Acupuncture group
Acupuncture group will receive one acupuncture treatment for twenty minutes.
干预措施: Acupuncture (Procedure)
结局指标
主要结局
Memory task
时间窗: After 1 hour
Following acupuncture treatment or resting control, participants will complete a standardized memory test (AOSPAN) to see if intervention affects memory.
Change in anxiety level
时间窗: Baseline and after1 hour
Participants will complete the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory survey to see how anxious they are initially; after acupuncture treatment or quiet resting, they will complete the survey again to see how anxious they are after the intervention.
次要结局
未报告次要终点