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Acceptability of an Acupuncture Intervention in Painful Elderly (ACUPUNCTURE)

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Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Other: Acupuncture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01043692
2006-AOO534-47

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an acupuncture intervention on persistent MusculoSkeletar pain in a long-term geriatric hospital care ward population. The main issue is the acceptability of this type of complementary and alternative medicine in older people, although the efficacy on pain is assessed too.

Full description

The first 60 patients wanting to participate are enrolled. For the impaired patients, family or legal representing is solicited. The Regional Ethic Committee agreement was granted. The intervention consists in 8 acupuncture sessions.

Evaluation

  • Acceptability : the proportion of patients who complete the whole treatment ; the acceptability at each acupuncture session is recorded.
  • Pain : Dolorous Scale . The evaluation is based on pre and post treatment variations. As a high proportion of patients have cognitive impairment, the behavioural pain scale "dolorous" has been chosen after staffs training for all patients, although "extra " auto evaluation is used when possible (EVS). Evaluation takes place after 5 sessions and after the end of the intervention as well as 2 and 4 weeks after the interventionProfessional carers' satisfaction is recorded.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • age > 60 years
  • chronic musculoskeletal pain
  • follow up 10 weeks
  • patient or legal representative's agreement to participate and to the informatics treatment of the data

Exclusion criteria

  • acute pain
  • exclusive neurological pain
  • coagulation disorders or anticoagulant curative treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

60 participants in 1 patient group

Acupuncture
Experimental group
Description:
Acupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly
Treatment:
Other: Acupuncture

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