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Acceptability of an Acupuncture Intervention in Painful Elderly

NCT ID: NCT01043692

Last Updated: 2013-10-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-10-31

Study Completion Date

2008-12-31

Brief Summary

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The aim is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an acupuncture intervention on persistent MusculoSkeletar pain in a long-term geriatric hospital care ward population. The main issue is the acceptability of this type of complementary and alternative medicine in older people, although the efficacy on pain is assessed too.

Detailed Description

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The first 60 patients wanting to participate are enrolled. For the impaired patients, family or legal representing is solicited. The Regional Ethic Committee agreement was granted. The intervention consists in 8 acupuncture sessions.

Evaluation

* Acceptability : the proportion of patients who complete the whole treatment ; the acceptability at each acupuncture session is recorded.
* Pain : Dolorous Scale . The evaluation is based on pre and post treatment variations. As a high proportion of patients have cognitive impairment, the behavioural pain scale "dolorous" has been chosen after staffs training for all patients, although "extra " auto evaluation is used when possible (EVS). Evaluation takes place after 5 sessions and after the end of the intervention as well as 2 and 4 weeks after the interventionProfessional carers' satisfaction is recorded.

Conditions

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Chronic Pain

Keywords

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Chronic Pain > 3 months Acupuncture Acceptability Geriatrics

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Acupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

Acupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly

Interventions

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* age \> 60 years
* chronic musculoskeletal pain
* follow up 10 weeks
* patient or legal representative's agreement to participate and to the informatics treatment of the data

Exclusion Criteria

* acute pain
* exclusive neurological pain
* coagulation disorders or anticoagulant curative treatment
Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Fondation de France

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Marie-France COUILLIOT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Locations

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HOPITAL RENE MURET BIGOTTINI - Dpt Interhosp. Santé Pub.

Sevran, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Couilliot MF, Darees V, Delahaye G, Ercolano P, Carcaille M, Vytopilova P, Tenenbaum B, Vicaut E. Acceptability of an acupuncture intervention for geriatric chronic pain: an open pilot study. J Integr Med. 2013 Jan;11(1):26-31. doi: 10.3736/jintegrmed2013005.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 23464643 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2006-AOO534-47

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id