This study was conducted at China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan, between January 2019 and December 2023, with 345 patients diagnosed with dizziness and vertigo (ICD-10 codes R42 and H81). Patients received acupuncture in addition to standard Western medical care. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was used to assess symptom severity before and after the acupuncture intervention. Secondary analyses explored the influence of ICD-10 classification, gender, and seasonality on treatment outcomes.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
345
Once a patient with Vertigo and Dizziness came to the emergency department, emergency physicians ask if they were willing to accept acupuncture intervention in addition to the routine western medical care.
China Medical University
Taichung, Taiwan
Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) change
The primary outcome in this study was the difference of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) before and after intervention, aiming to assess if patient's condition got better after acupuncture. VAS is one of the pain rating scales, with the minimum value 0 and the maximum value 10, used for the first time in 1921 by Hayes and Patterson. From the patient's perspective, this spectrum appears continuous; their pain does not take discrete jumps, as a categorization of none, mild, moderate and severe would suggest. It was to capture this idea of an underlying continuum that the VAS was devised.
Time frame: 30 minutes
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