Efficacy of Acupuncture in Exercise Tolerance in Patients With COPD

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Clinical Trial

Official title:

Efficacy of Acupuncture in Exercise Tolerance in Patients With COPD Controlled, Randomized, Double Blind Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03767140
• Other study ID #: acupuncture
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 27, 2018
• Est. completion date: November 28, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: December 2018
• Source: Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is nowadays the 4th cause of death in the world and it´s expected to become the 3rd cause of death in 2020 and the majority cause of morbidity. Besides that, in Portugal COPD patients become more dependents each day.

Acupuncture as a reflex therapy it´s carried out through a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnose that will allowed to identify the acupoints.

The investigators are interested in to assess acupuncture efficacy on physical exercise tolerance in COPD patients.An experimental, controlled, randomized, double blind study was done. Patients were recruited according TCM diagnose to optimize potential therapeutic effects.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 29
• Est. completion date: November 28, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: September 25, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• COPD GOLD III,IV;

• able to walk;

• Informed consent signed;

• stable medication during last 3 days

• exacerbation during 3 months;

• Chinese diagnose opening principle;

• blood pressure "90"180 mmhg/ "100mmhg; respiratory rate "10"30 cpm

Exclusion Criteria:

• smoker;

• metastasis;

• hepatic,

• renal or cardiovascular disease;

• pulmonary hypertension;

• COPD symptoms exacerbation during the therapy;

• previous acupuncture treatments;

• unstable vital signs;

• pulmonary rehabilitation in the last 6 months;

• needle phobia.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Disease
• Lung Diseases
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Procedure:
• acupuncture
The patients were randomized in two groups, one verum acupuncture, submitted to real acupuncture treatment, and the other sham acupuncture, treated with false acupuncture

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Portugal	Carla Manuela Loureiro Barros	Marco de Canaveses	Porto

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	six minute walk test (6MWT)	distance walked (metres)	6 minutes
Secondary	Oxygen peripheral saturation (SPO2)	pulse oximeter	6 minutes
Secondary	Rating of perceived exertion (Borg Scale)	during 6MWT	6 minutes
Secondary	Blood pressure	measure at end of 6MWT	6 minutes
Secondary	heart rate	at end of 6MWT	6 minutes