Need for Registration and Reporting of Acupuncture Trials in Parkinson's Disease in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Many people dealing with Parkinson's disease (PD) turn to complementary and alternative medicine when searching for a cure or relief from symptoms. Acupuncture is widely used in the Korean PD population to alleviate symptoms and in hopes of curing the illness. However, acupuncture use for PD patients has only recently begun to be studied scientifically and is still considered an unproven treatment for PD. Therefore, there is an urgent need for acupuncture to be studied, validated and used for PD. Thus, our study's aim is to examine how many acupuncture studies in PD are registered and reported in Korea.

Methods

The registries Clinicaltrials.gov and the Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS) and the search engine PubMed were searched to find relevant human cli

SUBMITTER: Lee TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5615176 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature