Acupuncture Treatment in Adults Undergoing Diagnostic OGD : A Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Randomized Trial

Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title: Acupuncture Treatment in Adults Undergoing Diagnostic Upper Gastrintestinal Endoscopy: A Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Randomized Trial

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

To find out how the application of acupuncture needles to the proposed acupuncture points: Heart 7 (HT 7) and Pericardium 6 (PC 6) for reducing anxiety during Esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (EGD)

Clinical Trial Description

Acupuncture is being used as one part of Chinese medicine for more than 2,500 years in treating diseases. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated that acupuncture can suppress the “pain” area in the brain so as to reduce the pain that felt by human subjects. Western medicine proposed the acupuncture mechanisms as to “provoke the release of endogenous substances” from central nervous system so in reducing pain. Many studies had been done using acupuncture in reducing pain for post-operation period, however, most of them were not very systematic and even some of them are leak of control group. Furthermore, to our knowledge, the use of acupuncture for reducing anxiety during EGD has not been previously investigated. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety

• NCT number: NCT00449241
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Wing Wa Leung, Master
• Phone: 26323915
• Email: leungww@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2006
• Completion date: July 2007