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Efficacy of Jin Three-Needles Acupuncture for constipation in Parkinson's disease

Phase 1
Conditions
constipation in Parkinson's disease
Registration Number
ITMCTR2200006007
Lead Sponsor
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Eligible participants should meet the following requirements:
(1) aged between 35 and 75 years;
(2) patients with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease;
(3) meet the diagnostic criteria of Roman IV diagnostic criteria for functional constipation;
(4) have PD for =6 months and constipation for =3 months;
(5) no cognitive barriers, able to understand and communicate correctly;
(6)those who sign the informed consent cooperate with the treatment and can adhere to the completion of all treatment as planned.

Exclusion Criteria

(1) bowel symptoms attributable to an organic etiology;
(2) one has serious life- threatening diseases such as serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, malignant tumor, haematopoietic diseases;
(3) involvement in other clinical trials within 30 days before participation,
which may affect the results of this study;
(4) need to take gastrointestinal motility drugs for a long time or have used gastrointestinal motility drugs in the past 1 month;
(5)afraid of acupuncture;
(6) pregnancy or lactation (women under 60 require a urine pregnancy test).

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
complete spontaneous bowel movements;
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
PAC-QOL;UPDRS;Bristol Stool Form Scale;PAC-SYM;
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