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Ear Acupuncture Effectiveness In Reducing The Signs And Symptoms Of Stress And Anxiety (EAEIRTSOSAA)

U

University of Sao Paulo

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Voluntary Participation in the Study With Available Time for Submission to the Sessions, Which Occur Over Two Months.
Have a Score of Stress Medium, High or Very High in the LSS Questionnaire, Completion of the STAI and General Form.
Exclusion Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
Pregnant Students.

Treatments

Other: Ear acupuncture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01275989
848/2009

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized Controlled Trial found that levels of stress and anxiety of students ITIO, Ear and effective in reducing these levels. The LSS questionnaire and IDATE state were applied before, two months and two and a half months after the start of the applications, the STAI trait was applied once prior to the sessions. The sample comprised 56 individuals who had higher levels of stress above the average LSS 100 students who answered the questionnaires. Participants were divided randomly into three groups: control group with 15 patients without care, intervention group with 20 individuals using specific points for treatment and Group Sham at 21 points using individuals without indication for treatment of anxiety and stress. The results showed that the sham points decreased anxiety levels of participants.

Full description

After checking the levels of stress and anxiety of students and workers from a school of massage and acupuncture concluded that auricular acupuncture in this study had significant results in reducing anxiety levels with the use of points and Ear Handle, but more studies are necessary so that it can be said that these points have sedating and calming effects for anxiety.

Enrollment

56 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Voluntary participation in the study with available time for submission to the sessions, which occur over two months.
  • Have a score of stress medium, high or very high in the LSS questionnaire, completion of the STAI and general form.

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant students. The only contraindication to this treatment is for pregnant women until the 3rd month of pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

56 participants in 3 patient groups

21
Sham Comparator group
Description:
sham acupuncture
Treatment:
Other: Ear acupuncture
15
No Intervention group
Description:
Control
Treatment:
Other: Ear acupuncture
20
Active Comparator group
Description:
intervention
Treatment:
Other: Ear acupuncture

Trial contacts and locations

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