Acupuncture for Adolescent Depression Disorder: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent Depression Disorder (ADD) is a disease with a high rate of disability and death worldwide, and its incidence is increasing, seriously influencing the physical and mental health of adolescents. Acupuncture is a complementary alternative therapy that has achieved good clinical efficacy in the intervention of depression, but its efficacy in ADD is uncertain. Therefore, the aim of this pilot trial is to preliminarily explore the possibility of acupuncture in the treatment of ADD, and to evaluate the feasibility of conducting further large-scale clinical trials to verify the efficacy of acupuncture.

Methods

In this pilot randomized controlled trial, 60 participants will be randomly assigned to receive acupuncture or sham acupuncture for 8 weeks of treatment

SUBMITTER: Duan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12302751 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature