A clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of electroacupuncture on mild cognitive impairment
- Conditions
- Diseases of the nervous system
- Registration Number
- KCT0003415
- Lead Sponsor
- Dongshin University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 36
Participants meeting all of the following criteria will be included in this trial. The inclusion criteria are as follows: 1) participants(males and females) aged 55 to 85 ; 2) participants who meet the Peterson diagnostic criteria for MCI, with memory impairments for at least 3 months; 3) Score in K-MMSE was 20-23; 4) Score in MoCA-K was 0-22;5) fluency in language sufficient to reliably complete all study assessment; 6) voluntarily signed the informed consent form.
Participants with a poor general condition and those who are not fit for electroacupuncture will be excluded. The exclusion criteria are as follows: 1) diagnosed with dementia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- ?; 2) history of brain structure lesions which may cause cognitive impairment(e.g., traumatic brain injury, stroke, intracranial space-occupying lesions, congenital mental retardation); 3) complicated by cancer and serious diseases of the cardiovascular, cerobrovascular, liver, and kidney; 4) who had been treated with alcohol or drug dependency, mental diseases(e.g., schizophrenia, serious anxiety, and depression) in the past six months in the past six months; 5) Currently under treatment for MCI(e.g., medication, acupuncture, and cognitive training); 6) who have difficulties in assessment due to visual and hearing impairments; 7) who are not fit for electroacupuncture (e.g., blood clotting abnormalitiessuch as hemophilia, infection of the head skin, and pacemaker attached); 8) concurrent participation in other clinical trials
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Alzheimer's Disease Asessment Scale-Korean version-cognitive subscale (ADAS-K-cog)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Korean version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment(MoCA-K);Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale( CES-D);Korean Activities of Daily Living( K-ADL), Korean Instrumental Activities of Daily Living( K-IADL);European Quality of Life Five Dimension. Five Level Scale(EQ-5D-5L)