Comparison of different assessment methods to evaluate the treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on minor and mild depression.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
160
Chinese herbs special for depression
six acupuncture point including DU20, EX HN3, EX HN1, PC6,HT7,SP6,special for depression
Thought Imprint Psychotherapy under lower Resistance State
Guang'anmen Hospital
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
psychological questionnaires
Time frame: 12 weeks post treatment.
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