Acupuncture as a Complementary Treatment for Hypertension (ACT-HAS)

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hypertensive Disease

Treatments: Other: Laser acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02530853

32909414.4.1001.5238

772.508 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized clinical trial with blinded, multi-center, involving the Federal University of in Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ), through the School of Nursing Anna Nery, as a proponent and research coordinator; and as a collaborative educational institutions, the Federal University of in Espirito Santo, represented by the Department of Nursing; and the Higher School of Sciences of the Santa Casa de Misericordia of Vitoria, developed by building doctorate thesis as a final product of the research.

Full description

The objective of investigation is the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary health care to patients with primary hypertension drug therapy.

Methodological approach - Randomized Clinical Trial triple blind.

Population / sample - Patients with Primary Hypertension in drug treatment for over a year and no effective control of blood pressure levels, that is, regular saving measures above was over 140x90 mmHg.

How centers Participants Research, the study covers health units of the Municipal Health of Maricá in Rio de Janeiro, the Municipal of Victoria Health in Espirito Santo, beyond the scope of Integrated Project Research-Service (PIPA), linked to School Nursing Anna Nery /UFRJ.

Primary Objective - To evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary health practice associated with drug treatment used in adults with primary hypertension, based on nursing diagnoses.

Secondary objectives:

• Estimate blood pressure levels after exposure to acupuncture applied in adults with primary hypertension.
• Draw the profile of the most frequent nursing diagnoses in adults with primary hypertension.
• Analyze the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary health therapy associated with drug treatment used on these clients, based on nursing diagnoses.

Enrollment: 110 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be suffering from essential hypertension;
• Be properly prescribed medication and have difficulty controlling blood pressure keeping regular measurement above was over 140x90 mmHg.

Exclusion criteria

• A woman in pregnancy;
• Be in possession of any type of cancer;
• being a smoker;
• be alcoholic;
• Be in drug treatment for other diseases including obesity;
• Not dieting for weight loss;
• practice regular physical activity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A

Experimental group

Description:

Laser acupuncture

Treatment:

Other: Laser acupuncture

Group B

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Simulation Laser acupuncture

Treatment:

Other: Laser acupuncture