Nausea, Vomiting, Pregnancy.
Conditions
Interventions
There will be two groups of pregnant women: intervention group with 28 women and control group with 28 women, totalizing 56 participants in the study. Participants will be informed about the research
the auriculotherapy session or the placebo will be performed according to the table already mentioned, prepared by third parties, not involved in the study. In the office, the pregnant woman will be i
with a dry ear, mustard seeds will be applied, previously packed in an auriculotherapy plate, covered with beige microporous tape.
The researcher was trained in Auriculotherapy in September 2019 with
E02.190.204
E02.190.044.133
Sponsors
Universidade Federaldo Ceará
Universidade Federaldo Ceará
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Age
16 Years to 44 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Among the pregnant womenat 13 weeks or less of gestational age, the ones with complaints of nausea and/or vomiting, that are not in use of antiemetic drugs, that are characterized as low risk pregnancy and have availability for return in 7 days will be assessed.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Use of antiemetics, diagnosed mental disease, speach or hearing difficulties that might make it impossible to fill the questionary or to conduct the interview, dermatologic lesion on auriculotherapy point of treatment and allergy to the intervetion material.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The assessed primary outcome is the reduction of nausea and vomiting in at least 50% after intervention, it will be assesed with the Rhodes Index for Nausea, Vomiting and Retching. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Possible adverse effects will be evaluated as secondary outcome, they will be measured from their incidence; adverse effects may be: pain in treatment points, pruritus in treatment points, temperature increase on a specific auricular point. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactNathaly;Priscila Moraes Fróes;Aquino
Universidade Federaldo Ceará;
Outcome results
None listed