Effect of acupuncture on patients with insomnia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypnotic drugs tend to be the dominant form of treatment of insomnia, but these come with a number of reported side effects. Acupuncture has been studied as an alternative, resulting in a rising need for methodological research towards verifying its efficacy as insomnia treatment.

Methods/design

We describe a proposal for a single-center, patient-assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial with two parallel arms. A total of 38 patients complete screening tests at the first visit, are registered into the clinical trial, and then randomly assigned to the experimental or sham control groups (19 patients for each group). All subjects are clinical insomnia patients who score a 6 or above on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and meet all inclusion criteria. Al

SUBMITTER: Han KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4213556 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature