Chronic Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Chronic Pain > 3 months, Acupuncture, Acceptability, Geriatrics
Brief summary
The aim is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an acupuncture intervention on persistent MusculoSkeletar pain in a long-term geriatric hospital care ward population. The main issue is the acceptability of this type of complementary and alternative medicine in older people, although the efficacy on pain is assessed too.
Detailed description
The first 60 patients wanting to participate are enrolled. For the impaired patients, family or legal representing is solicited. The Regional Ethic Committee agreement was granted. The intervention consists in 8 acupuncture sessions. Evaluation * Acceptability : the proportion of patients who complete the whole treatment ; the acceptability at each acupuncture session is recorded. * Pain : Dolorous Scale . The evaluation is based on pre and post treatment variations. As a high proportion of patients have cognitive impairment, the behavioural pain scale dolorous has been chosen after staffs training for all patients, although extra auto evaluation is used when possible (EVS). Evaluation takes place after 5 sessions and after the end of the intervention as well as 2 and 4 weeks after the interventionProfessional carers' satisfaction is recorded.
Interventions
OTHERAcupuncture
Acupuncture in the Treatment of MUSCULOSKELETAR Pain in Hospitalised Elderly
Sponsors
Fondation de France
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
60 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* age \> 60 years * chronic musculoskeletal pain * follow up 10 weeks * patient or legal representative's agreement to participate and to the informatics treatment of the data
Exclusion criteria
* acute pain * exclusive neurological pain * coagulation disorders or anticoagulant curative treatment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Taux acceptability of the totality of treatment | 6 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Participation rate | every visit |
| Motives behind the acceptance or rejection | at Visit 0 to 8 |
| Pain decrease assessment : DOLOPLUS score (observer-assessed evaluation of pain) before/ater intervention, for all the patients Simple descriptive pain intensity scale (VS) (self assessment evaluation of pain) for communicative patients | at Visit 0, 6, 9, 10 and 11 |
| Pain therapeutic's decrease | every visit |
| Patient's benefit - Carers satisfaction (questionnaire) | at Visit 0,6, 9, 10 and 11 |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed