Constipation
Conditions
Interventions
control group:blank control
acupuncture group:acupuncture
Sponsors
West China Hospital of Sichuan University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged 59 to 85 years old; 2. Patients with depression, meet the diagnosis standard, and taking antidepressant drugs, the diagnosis of depression with psychiatric disorders and Statistical Manual version 5 - (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of getting Disorder - 5th edition, DSM - 5); 3. Constipation diagnosis standard, and not happen before taking antidepressants constipation, the diagnosis of constipation with Roman III diagnostic criteria; 4. Patients and their families are willing to attend the test and sign the informed consent, cooperate with the healer patients who must meet the above four items at the same time can be included in this study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Nearly two weeks, depression symptom control is not stable (more than attending doctors decide by the mental health center); 2. By organic disease than the antidepressant drugs, functional disease, or other reasons cause of constipation; 3. Blood coagulation dysfunction; 4. Severe dysfunction such as heart, brain, liver and kidney patients; 5. Pregnancy and lactating women; 6. Have a pacemaker, allergic to metal or serious afraid of acupuncture; 7. Test within 2 weeks before using drug treating constipation (except emergency response); 8. Over the past three months received acupuncture treatment; 9. At the same time to participate in other clinical researchers.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| CSBMs>=3 times;Defecate difficulty score;Bristol stool trait score change value; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactJian-qin Lv
West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Outcome results
None listed