The Effectiveness Of Auricular Acupressure On Body Weight Parameters On Patients With Schizophrenia

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effectiveness Of Auricular Acupressure On Body Weight Parameters On Patients With Schizophrenia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Unknown status

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01167348
• Other study ID #: Tsaotun Psychiatric Center
• Status: Unknown status
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 16, 2010
• Last updated: July 22, 2010
• Start date: June 2010
• Est. completion date: August 2010

Study information

• Verified date: July 2010
• Source: TsaoTun Psychiatric Center, Department of Health, Taiwan
• Contact: Han-Yi Ching, MD
• Phone: 886911587276
• Email: HYChing[@]mail.ttpc.doh.gov.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether auricular acupressure is effective in reducing body weight, waist circumference, or lipid profile.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Unknown status
• Enrollment: 86
• Est. completion date: August 2010
• Est. primary completion date: August 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. ICD:295,living in chronic ward for more than 2 month

2. Body Mass Index (BMI) >or=24

3. Age between 20 to 60

4. Psychotic status stable and can communicate

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Unstable psychotic status

2. Participants who have endocrine disease

3. Participants who have cardiac disease

4. Participants who have immunological disease

5. Participants who have liver or renal function impairment

6. Pregnant woman or in milking stage

7. Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) stroke and disability

8. Participant who attends weight control programs in recent 3 months

9. Any conditions that clinical doctors refuse to let join in this study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Body Weight
• Obesity
• Schizophrenia

Intervention

Procedure:
• auricular acupressure
Investigator will put a tape with a 0.5mmx0.5mm seed on the specific positions on the ear of participants of intervention group, and participants will be asked to press these specific positions 3 times a day.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Tsao-Tun Psychiatric Center	Nan-Tou

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
TsaoTun Psychiatric Center, Department of Health, Taiwan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Using Body weight scale (kilogram) and checking body weight for all participants	all participants are going to be measured body weight per week for 2 months.	2 months
Secondary	waist circumference	All participants are going to be measured waist circumference per week for 2 months.	2 months
Secondary	Fat percentage by using bio-Impedance Analysis(Tanita-519 machine)	All participants will be measured fat percentage by BIA(Tanita-519) per 2 months.	2 months