Acupuncture for Symptomatic Care of Hemodialysis Patients: a Case-series
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 20
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Measure Your Medical Outcome Profile2 (MYMOP)
研究概览
简要总结
Purpose:
Hemodialysis-dependent patients with an end-stage renal disease (ESRD) suffer from a number of distressing symptoms, such as pain, poor mental health, fatigue, sleep disturbance and pruritus. These negatively influence health-related quality of life in ESRD patients, and some of them result in increased mortality and hospitalization. Acupuncture is a widely employed treatment on several chronic disease or condition. Adjunctive use of acupuncture with conventional treatment could be a possible therapeutic option to establish an optimal care for ESRD patients who experiences co-morbid conditions or complications of hemodialysis. Due to its non-pharmacologic feature, the effects of acupuncture without involving altered pharmacokinetics and drug-interactions in hemodialysis patients, might be another strong point compared to other pharmacological interventions. However, little information is available for the effects and the safety of acupuncture for symptomatic care of hemodialysis patients.
Thus, the investigators propose whether acupuncture could be a effective and safe therapeutic modality for a number of patient-reported symptoms in hemodialysis-dependent patients with ESRD.
详细描述
This trial is a case-series, with a nested-qualitative study at the end of follow-up. Acupuncture treatment will be provided biweekly for 6 weeks, namely total 12 sessions, and follow-up period will be 4 weeks after the end of treatment. Changes of symptoms, quality of life and occured adverse events will be assessed during study procedure. Patients who agreed joining qualitative research will be interviewed about their experiences of acupuncture in detail.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •over 19 years old
- •started hemodialysis at least 3 months ago
- •receiving hemodialysis 3 times a week regularly
- •equilibrated Kt/V ≥ 1.2
- •willingness to participate in this study
排除标准
- •acute/chronic liver disease
- •events of life-threatening cardiovascular disease within 6 months
- •events of life-threatening neurological disorder within 6 months
- •current/past history of neoplasm
- •hemorrhagic disorders
- •drug abuse/alcoholism
- •other infectious disease including active tuberculosis
- •history of the use of acupuncture, moxibustion or herbs within 1 month
结局指标
主要结局
Measure Your Medical Outcome Profile2 (MYMOP)
时间窗: Evaluated at baseline, post-treatment, and 4 weeks after post-treatment (total 3 times)
次要结局
- Kidney Disease Quality of Life-SF V1.3 (KDQOL-SF V 1.3) questionnaire(Evaluated at baseline, post-treatment, and 4 weeks after post-treatment (total 3 times))