Effects of Acupuncture on Pain and Quality of Life of People Affected With Chronic Widespread Pain.
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT03081091
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov Recruiting status changes often. Contact the study team listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, and talk to your doctor before joining a study.
This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Background: Chronic Widespread Pain (CWP) is a multidimensional disorder for which treatment as yet remains unsatisfactory. Acupuncture is one of the most sought therapeutic methods when it comes to alternative medicine, due to its minimal adverse effects and its ease of use in clinical practice. Currently, acupuncture is successfully used in China for the treatment of many chronic diseases. The work to be carried out aims to assess the effects of acupuncture on pain management and quality of life of people suffering from CWP. Methods/design: The study is a single-center, controlled triple-blind prospective study. A total of 100 participants will be randomly distributed into two groups, the intervention group, which will receive an individualized acupuncture treatment; and control group, which will receive sham acupuncture. The treatments performed will be personalized and the treatment criteria will be based on the use of the Yuan and Luo points. They will be evaluated using a specific measurement system, constituted of the Visual Analogue Scale, The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire and The Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale. The primary outcome measures assess whether acupuncture can bring about a decrease in pain and an improvement in the quality of life of people suffering from chronic widespread pain; the secondary outcomes assess whether the use of acupuncture leads to improved sleep quality. The results obtained will be analysed at 1st, 4th and 8th weeks from the start of treatment. Discussion: This technique is aimed to restore some of the imbalances suffered by patients affected with CWP and to improve their symptomatology. We expect to observe a significant improvement in the pain, quality of life and sleep quality of people affected with CWP. The study will be conducted according to the STRICTA guidelines, which lay down the right way to proceed when carrying out scientific studies in the field of acupuncture.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Acupuncture on Pain and Quality of Life of People Affected With Chronic Widespread Pain. Study Protocol for a Randomized, Triple-blinded, Placebo Controlled Trial.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Universitat de Girona
- Start date
- 2017-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-05-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * • Meeting the criteria set by the American College of Rheumatology for the diagnosis of chronic widespread pain. * Accepting to sign the informed consent of participation in the study. * Being older than 18 years. Exclusion Criteria: * Suffering from malignant diseases or active rheumatologic disorders (osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, etc.). * Suffering from coxarthrosis or severe gonarthrosis. * Having previously received acupuncture treatments.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03081091