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Auricular Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances
Sponsor: Paul Crawford
Summary
A randomized controlled trial of auricular acupuncture for sleep disturbances. * Objective 1: Evaluate the effectiveness of a specific protocol of auricular acupuncture in the treatment of sleep disturbance among active duty and otherDoD beneficiaries. * Objective 2: Test whether a brief course of auricular acupuncture treatments among active duty and other DoD beneficiaries with sleep disturbance willalso decrease severity of anxiety, depression, pain and improve sleep and social functioning in subgroup analysis of subjects with known or newlydiagnosed mental health disorders (e.g., anxiety disorders, depression). * Null Hypothesis: Auricular Acupuncture has no effect on sleep disturbance. * Alternative Hypothesis: Auricular Acupuncture reduces sleep disturbance.
Official title: Auricular Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances: A Randomized Control Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
180
Start Date
2022-05-01
Completion Date
2026-12
Last Updated
2026-01-12
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Auricular acupuncture
Auricular acupuncture treatments will be utilizing ASP needles. The needles will stay in and fall out on their own (usually 3-10 days). For some patients who are acupuncture naïve, Seirin 15mm needles will be placed and allowed to remain for 45 minutes. This option will be provided to all subjects for their first treatment. Auricular acupuncture treatment possible locations will be as defined as: Master Cerebral/Prefrontal cortex, Amygdala, Hippocampus, Hypothalamus, Point Zero, Shen Men, Insomnia 1,Insomnia 2 OR Prefrontal Cortex, Reticular formation, Pineal gland, Hypothalamus, Point zero. In acupuncture parlance, the patient will be treated with ATP plus sleep I on first visit, then the acupuncturist will continue to use that treatment for each subsequent visit with the potential to add ATP plus sleep II. Both ears will be treated unless the patient requests that one be left open. The acupuncturist may use sleep I in one ear and sleep II in the other.
Standard treatment
Standard treatment from Primary Care Manager (PCM) or Mental Health or both
Locations (1)
Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center
Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, United States