Acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Bowel Symptom and Quality of Life in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

Treatments: Device: acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05042661

TFang

Details and patient eligibility

About

To discuss the effects of improving the irritable bowel syndrome patients' quality of life and defecation after implementing acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical nerve stimulation.

Full description

This experiment will use a clinical design that will collect cases in a local teaching hospital. The way of convenience sampling will gather from the irritable bowel syndrome patients. After a questionnaire, randomly to make invention and control groups. Invention and control groups are 4 weeks and 3 weeks respectively. Each time will be for 20 minutes acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation treatment. The Control group will still have normal nursing. There will be 72 patients in two groups. The measured timing will be in the second, fourth, and eighth weeks after the prediction and invention.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Those who are at least 20 years old (inclusive) and are willing to sign a written informed consent after explaining the purpose of the research.
2. A patient with irritable bowel syndrome diagnosed by a doctor for at least 6 months (inclusive).
3. Communicate in Mandarin or Hokkien.

Exclusion criteria

1. Those who cannot take care of themselves in daily life.
2. Those who have had severe abdominal and colorectal surgery.
3. Those who have been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease or colorectal cancer.
4. Those with a history of mental illness, such as schizophrenia and obsessive- compulsive disorder.
5. Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, and less than 12 months after delivery.
6. Other serious diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction, endocrine disease, decompensated cirrhosis, stroke, and end-stage renal disease, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

1. The experimental group received acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation three times a week for 4 weeks. 2. Invention and control groups are 4 weeks and 3 weeks respectively. Each time will be for 20 minutes acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation treatment

Treatment:

Device: acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Control group:conventional therapy

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive routine care.