Acupuncture for Dizziness and Vertigo in Emergency Department: a Single-center, Self-control, Observational Clinical Study During 2019-2023
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 345
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) change
研究概览
简要总结
This study was conducted at China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan, between January 2019 and December 2023, with 345 patients diagnosed with dizziness and vertigo (ICD-10 codes R42 and H81). Patients received acupuncture in addition to standard Western medical care. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was used to assess symptom severity before and after the acupuncture intervention. Secondary analyses explored the influence of ICD-10 classification, gender, and seasonality on treatment outcomes.
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
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients who were diagnosed as ICD number R42 and H81
排除标准
- •Patients who were not suitable to accept acupuncture or refused to accept acupuncture
研究组 & 干预措施
Acupuncture + Western medical care Group
Once a patient with Vertigo and Dizziness came to the emergency department, emergency physicians ask if they were willing to accept acupuncture intervention in addition to the routine western medical care.
干预措施: Acupuncture (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) change
时间窗: 30 minutes
The primary outcome in this study was the difference of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) before and after intervention, aiming to assess if patient's condition got better after acupuncture. VAS is one of the pain rating scales, with the minimum value 0 and the maximum value 10, used for the first time in 1921 by Hayes and Patterson. From the patient's perspective, this spectrum appears continuous; their pain does not take discrete jumps, as a categorization of none, mild, moderate and severe would suggest. It was to capture this idea of an underlying continuum that the VAS was devised.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Yu-Chen Lee
Director of Department of Acupuncture
China Medical University Hospital