Acupuncture for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Current interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are efficacious, yet effectiveness may be limited by adverse effects and high withdrawal rates. Acupuncture is an emerging intervention with positive preliminary data for PTSD.

Objective

To compare verum acupuncture with sham acupuncture (minimal needling) on clinical and physiological outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a 2-arm, parallel-group, prospective blinded randomized clinical trial hypothesizing superiority of verum to sham acupuncture. The study was conducted at a single outpatient-based site, the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, California, with recruitment from April 2018 to May 2022, followed by a 15-week treatment period. Following exclusion for charact

SUBMITTER: Hollifield M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature