The hypothesis of this study is that DiaoShi Jifa reduces the symptoms, such as dizziness in patients with Meniere's disease.
Created by Dr. Diao, DiaoShi Jifa is a well-known traditional Chinese Medicine approach to treat dizziness in patients with chronic diseases. The investigators designed this randomized clinical trial to examine whether Diaoshi Jifa significantly decreases dizziness in patients with Meniere's disease. There are 2 arms in this trial: One arm is DiaoShi Jifa plus conventional Western medical treatment, another is conventional Western medical treatment only. The dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) will be used to evaluate the treatment effect.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
27
Diaoshi Jifa treatment
the Western medical treatment alone.
Xuan Wu Hosipital
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Change in Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) Questionnaire Score
dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) evaluates the self-perceived handicapping effects imposed by vestibular system disease. We employed the final version of DHI, which contains 25 items including 7 physical questions, 9 functional questions and 9 emotional questions. DHI has a total score of 100 points (4 points for each item). Higher scores indicate more severe handicap. Thus the maximum score for DHI is 100, while the minimum core is 0.
Time frame: 0 and 24 hours
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