Acceptability of an Acupuncture Intervention in Painful Elderly
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Acupuncture
- Registration Number
- NCT01043692
- Lead Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
- Brief Summary
The aim is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an acupuncture intervention on persistent MusculoSkeletar pain in a long-term geriatric hospital care ward population. The main issue is the acceptability of this type of complementary and alternative medicine in older people, although the efficacy on pain is assessed too.
- Detailed Description
The first 60 patients wanting to participate are enrolled. For the impaired patients, family or legal representing is solicited. The Regional Ethic Committee agreement was granted. The intervention consists in 8 acupuncture sessions.
Evaluation
* Acceptability : the proportion of patients who complete the whole treatment ; the acceptability at each acupuncture session is recorded.
* Pain : Dolorous Scale . The evaluation is based on pre and post treatment variations. As a high proportion of patients have cognitive impairment, the behavioural pain scale "dolorous" has been chosen after staffs training for all patients, although "extra " auto evaluation is used when possible (EVS). Evaluation takes place after 5 sessions and after the end of the intervention as well as 2 and 4 weeks after the interventionProfessional carers' satisfaction is recorded.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
- age > 60 years
- chronic musculoskeletal pain
- follow up 10 weeks
- patient or legal representative's agreement to participate and to the informatics treatment of the data
- acute pain
- exclusive neurological pain
- coagulation disorders or anticoagulant curative treatment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Acupuncture Acupuncture Acupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Taux acceptability of the totality of treatment 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Participation rate every visit Patient's benefit - Carers satisfaction (questionnaire) at Visit 0,6, 9, 10 and 11 Motives behind the acceptance or rejection at Visit 0 to 8 Pain decrease assessment : DOLOPLUS score (observer-assessed evaluation of pain) before/ater intervention, for all the patients Simple descriptive pain intensity scale (VS) (self assessment evaluation of pain) for communicative patients at Visit 0, 6, 9, 10 and 11 Pain therapeutic's decrease every visit
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
HOPITAL RENE MURET BIGOTTINI - Dpt Interhosp. Santé Pub.
🇫🇷Sevran, France