The Effect of Acupuncture on Pregnancy Rates in Women Undergoing Embryo Transfer (AcuIVF)

Ottawa Fertility Centre

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 4

Conditions: Pregnancy

Treatments: Procedure: Active acupuncture; Procedure: Sham acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00722462

OttawaFC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study is designed to test the hypothesis that acupuncture, before and after embryo transfer, significantly improves pregnancy rates, compared to embryo transfer with sham acupuncture and no acupuncture at all.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient is undergoing embryo transfer after IVF or ICSI
• patient has given informed consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

• frozen embryo transfer
• previous enrollment in study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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30 participants in 3 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Active acupuncture

Treatment:

Procedure: Active acupuncture

2

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Sham Acupuncture- acupuncture at neutral points

Treatment:

Procedure: Sham acupuncture

3

No Intervention group

Description:

Embryo transfer with no acupuncture