The Effectiveness Of Auricular Acupressure On Body Weight Parameters On Patients With Schizophrenia

TsaoTun Psychiatric Center, Department of Health, Taiwan

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Schizophrenia; Obesity

Treatments: Procedure: auricular acupressure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01167348

Tsaotun Psychiatric Center

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine whether auricular acupressure is effective in reducing body weight, waist circumference, or lipid profile.

Enrollment: 86 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. ICD:295,living in chronic ward for more than 2 month
2. Body Mass Index (BMI) >or=24
3. Age between 20 to 60
4. Psychotic status stable and can communicate

Exclusion criteria

1. Unstable psychotic status
2. Participants who have endocrine disease
3. Participants who have cardiac disease
4. Participants who have immunological disease
5. Participants who have liver or renal function impairment
6. Pregnant woman or in milking stage
7. Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) stroke and disability
8. Participant who attends weight control programs in recent 3 months
9. Any conditions that clinical doctors refuse to let join in this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind