The Effectiveness Of Auricular Acupressure On Body Weight Parameters On Patients With Schizophrenia

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01167348

Enrollment

Registered

2010-07-22

Start date

2010-06-30

Completion date

2010-08-31

Last updated

2010-07-23

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Conditions

Obesity, Schizophrenia

Keywords

auricular acupressure, obesity, schizophrenia, body weight

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether auricular acupressure is effective in reducing body weight, waist circumference, or lipid profile.

Interventions

PROCEDUREauricular acupressure

Investigator will put a tape with a 0.5mmx0.5mm seed on the specific positions on the ear of participants of intervention group, and participants will be asked to press these specific positions 3 times a day.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

20 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. ICD:295,living in chronic ward for more than 2 month 2. Body Mass Index (BMI) \>or=24 3. Age between 20 to 60 4. Psychotic status stable and can communicate

Exclusion criteria

1. Unstable psychotic status 2. Participants who have endocrine disease 3. Participants who have cardiac disease 4. Participants who have immunological disease 5. Participants who have liver or renal function impairment 6. Pregnant woman or in milking stage 7. Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) stroke and disability 8. Participant who attends weight control programs in recent 3 months 9. Any conditions that clinical doctors refuse to let join in this study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Using Body weight scale (kilogram) and checking body weight for all participants	2 months	all participants are going to be measured body weight per week for 2 months.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
waist circumference	2 months	All participants are going to be measured waist circumference per week for 2 months.
Fat percentage by using bio-Impedance Analysis(Tanita-519 machine)	2 months	All participants will be measured fat percentage by BIA(Tanita-519) per 2 months.

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactHan-Yi Ching, MD

HYChing@mail.ttpc.doh.gov.tw886911587276

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026