Auriculotherapy in the Cares to the Premenstrual Syndrome

University of Sao Paulo

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Premenstrual Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Auriculotherapy group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01782040

CEP 35/2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a collection of physical and emotional symptoms related to a woman's menstrual cycle. These symptoms occurring only during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle that are of sufficient severity to interfere with some aspects of life of these women, reflecting also in interpersonal relationships, workplace and in their productivity. For these reasons, this research was conducted with the nursing staff of the Samaritan Hospital in order to verify the effectiveness of auricular acupuncture to alleviate some of the symptoms of PMS.

Full description

The chinese auriculotherapy is a intervention used by Chinese Traditional Medicine in order to balance the body energy and to treat several kind of diseases using semipermanent needles in specific points of the auricular pavilion.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 21 to 44 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Belong to the nursing staff
2. Present at least one behavioral or physical symptom that is self-perceived as related to the symptoms that precede menstruation (irritability, depression, fatigue, headache, breast tenderness, swelling, anxiety, insomnia, crying spells, changes in appetite)
3. Voluntary participation in the study
4. Availability of time for submission to the sessions

Exclusion criteria

1. Medical license or vacation during the period of the research.
2. Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control Group didn't receive any treatment and it was evaluated at the same time and the same way of interventions group

Auriculotherapy group

Experimental group

Description:

The chinese auriculotherapy is a intervention used by Chinese Traditional Medicine in order to treat several kind of diseases using semi-permanent needles in specific points of the auricular pavilion.It was used 6 points: Kidney, Liver, Stomach, Brain Stem, Ovary and Uterus point with semi-permanent needles one time per week for 8 sessions

Treatment:

Other: Auriculotherapy group