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Acceptability of an Acupuncture Intervention in Painful Elderly

Not Applicable
Completed
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
Inclusion Criteria
  • 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
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Exclusion Criteria
  • acute pain
  • exclusive neurological pain
  • coagulation disorders or anticoagulant curative treatment
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
AcupunctureAcupunctureAcupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Taux acceptability of the totality of treatment6 months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Participation rateevery visit
Patient's benefit - Carers satisfaction (questionnaire)at Visit 0,6, 9, 10 and 11
Motives behind the acceptance or rejectionat 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 patientsat Visit 0, 6, 9, 10 and 11
Pain therapeutic's decreaseevery visit

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

HOPITAL RENE MURET BIGOTTINI - Dpt Interhosp. Santé Pub.

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Sevran, France

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