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Abdominal Acupuncture on moderate and severe depression female patients: A randomized controlled blind clinical trial

Abdominal Acupuncture on moderate and severe depression female patients: A randomized controlled bli

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ChiCTR
Registry ID
ChiCTR-TRC-14005228
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2014-09-01
Start date
2013-06-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2017-04-18

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Conditions

depression

Interventions

treatment group:acupuncture andFluoxetine
control group:acupuncture andFluoxetine

Sponsors

Guangdong Provincal hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 60 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1.women aged 23-60years; 2.Meet the diagnostic criterion of depression; 3.Capability to understand and read Chinese; 4.SDS less than 53 or MADRE more than 14 scores.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Pregnancy women or breast-feed women; 2. Any antidepressant treatment during last month; 3. Alcohol/substances abuse or dependence; 4. Severe psychoses (Schizophrenia, mania, paranoid psychosis and depression patients who has obvious suicidal) or dementia; 5. Patients with the severe damage of liver, kidney function, or with neurological deficits, rheumatologic disorders, cardiac disease, diabetes, malignant tumor and any other significant systemic disorders which might affect the results; 6. Not signed informed consent.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The Self-Rating Depression Scale;The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale;

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagine;safety index;

Countries

Guangdong

Contacts

Public ContactXiaoyun Wang
jiaoshouw@163.com+86 18922108066

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ChiCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026