This is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate acupuncture treatment on insomnia in the adult population in Hong Kong.
Acupuncture is potential to be an alternative treatment for primary insomnia. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture treatment on primary insomnia. This is a randomized single-blinded controlled trial. Patients will be randomly assigned to the electro-acupuncture group or the placebo acupuncture group. Patients will be put into groups and then compared.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
Acupuncture at bilateral Ear Shenmen, Sishencong EX-HN1, Anmian, and unilateral Yintang EX-HN3 and Baihui GV20. The needles will be left for 30 min and then removed. Acupuncture treatment will consist of three sessions per week for 3 consecutive weeks.
Queen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Self-rated sleep quality score measured by Insomnia Severity Index questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline, weekly during the treatment course, 1-week posttreatment
Sleep parameters (sleep onset latency, sleep efficiency, total sleep time, times of wakening during sleep) by objective measure - wrist actigraphy
Time frame: Baseline, and 1-week posttreatment
Sleep parameters (sleep onset latency, sleep efficiency, total sleep time, times of wakening during sleep) by subjective measures using sleep log.
Time frame: Baseline, weekly during the treatment course, and 1-week posttreatment
Self-rated sleep quality score measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline, and 1-week posttreatment
Anxiety and depression states measured by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
Time frame: Baseline, and 1-week posttreatment
Subjects' functioning regarding work/study, social life and family measured by Sheehan Disability Index
Time frame: Baseline, and 1-week posttreatment
Subjects' credibility to the treatment measured by Credibility of treatment rating scale
Time frame: Second and the last time of the treatment
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