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Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is one of the most common diseases in urology, but its pathogenesis remains unclear and the effective therapy lacks. As a kind of chronic pain which the patients suffered for more than 3 months, CP/CPPS could be alleviated by acupuncture. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and higher magnetic field strengths could enable scientists to investigate the brain accurately and non-invasively during every stage of chronic pain.To avoid placebo effect, sham acupuncture would be also enrolled.Herein, by the utilization of fMRI in resting-state, we investigated the influence on patients' brain alterations after the patients accepted the treatment of acupuncture.


Clinical Trial Description

A two (participant and assessor) blind, two-arm parallel, randomized controlled trial will be conducted. Sixty patients with CP/CPPS will be recruited from Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, and thirty healthy volunteers will be recruited as the healthy control group by advertisement. Patients will be randomly assigned into one of two intervention groups: acupuncture group and sham acupuncture group. The ratio of healthy control (n = 30), acupuncture group (n = 30) and sham acupuncture group (n = 30) will be 1:1:1. Sanyinjiao (SP6), Zhibian (BL54), Shenshu (BL23), and Huiyang (BL35) are chosen as acupoints for both acupuncture group and sham acupuncture group (Park sham device). The course of treatment is 2 times a week in three months (totally 24 times). The group of healthy control will get only once fMRI scan while the group of patients will get fMRI scan week 0 (before treatment), week 12 (after treatment) and week 36 (following up). Every time the participants receive the fMRI scan, they will be asked to finish the clinical scales. The primary outcome will be the change in the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) total score from baseline to week 12 and week 36. Secondary outcomes will include the changes of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, International Prostate Symptom Score, International Index of Erectile Function, Self-Esteem Scale, Social Support Rating Scale and Numeric Rating Scale and brain functional activated or inactivated regions. ;


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NCT number NCT05075551
Study type Interventional
Source Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 5, 2022
Completion date December 31, 2023

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