Comparison of Treatment Effect of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine on Depression in China and America

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01558154

Enrollment

160

Registered

2012-03-20

Start date

2012-03-31

Completion date

2014-07-31

Last updated

2012-03-20

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Conditions

Depression

Keywords

depression, Chinese herb, acupuncture, Psychotherapy, Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Brief summary

Comparison of different assessment methods to evaluate the treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on minor and mild depression.

Detailed description

Significant differences show on the evaluation of treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on depression in China and America. Choose minor and mild depression patients as trials. One hundred and sixty trials will be included and randomly divided into Chinese medicine group (n=40), acupuncture group (n=40), traditional Chinese medicine psychology group (n=40) and physical treatment group (n=40). Time points of assessment are before treatment, 1 week, 2 weeks, 4weeks, 6 weeks and 12 weeks post treatment.The assessment tools are series of psychological questionnaires. And study the mechanism of treatment efficacy assessment variances by different methods.

Interventions

DRUGChinese herbs

Chinese herbs special for depression

PROCEDUREacupuncture

six acupuncture point including DU20, EX HN3, EX HN1, PC6,HT7,SP6,special for depression

OTHERPsychotherapy

Thought Imprint Psychotherapy under lower Resistance State

DEVICETranscranial magnetic stimulation

Give magnetic stimulation at head

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

FACTORIAL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

16 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* According with ICD-10 criteria of depression; * Age 16-70; * Antidepressant and other Psychiatric drugs have not been had two weeks before the trial, or the drugs above had been used but have cleaning period of two weeks; * Level of education is higher than junior middle school; * Course of disease is more than two weeks; * Volunteer to join and Signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

* Pregnancy or lactation; * Severe depression or have serious suicidal tendencies * long distance or other causes who can not adherence to treatment

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
psychological questionnaires	12 weeks post treatment.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactWeidong Wang, Master

pro_wwd@sohu.com86-10-88001261

Backup ContactXue Yan, Doctor

snowater27@hotmail.com86-10-88001178

Outcome results

None listed

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