Auricular Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances

Description

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.

Conditions

Sleep Disturbance

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Study overview

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.

Auricular Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances: A Randomized Control Trial

Auricular Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances

Condition
Sleep Disturbance
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Nellis Air Force Base

Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, United States, 89191

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Male and female Active Duty members and DoD beneficiaries ages 18-80 with complaints of sleep disturbances.
  • * PROMIS-16 Sleep-Related Impairment Scale with a score of medium or severe (T-Score greater than or equal to 60).
  • * Patients with OSA who are prescribed CPAP/BiPAP and either do not use it or use it \<70% of time per patient report.
  • * Investigators seek to exclude individuals with sleep-related medical or psychiatric conditions that are so severe as to render these patients inappropriate for treatment in primary care or simple mental health without psychiatry oversight or that acupuncture cannot be expected to have an effect on (e.g., thyroid disease). Specifically, exclusion criteria will include:
  • * Psychosis
  • * Thyroid disease undergoing active adjustment of medication.Depression, with suicidality. (clinician judgment)
  • * Greater than 10 mg equivalent of diazepam equivalent per day for any reason
  • * Non-response to greater than 2 PSTD treatments
  • * Having acupuncture not related to sleep in the past 3 months
  • * Pregnant

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Paul Crawford,

Paul Crawford, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Study Record Dates

2024-12