Comprehensive Acupuncture for Depressive Disorder With Comorbid Psychogenic Pain

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2019-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Experimental and clinical studies have indicated that acupuncture has a good effect for depression and comorbid pain. The purpose of this research is to compare the effect of comprehensive electro-acupuncture therapy and western medicine citalopram for for depressive disorder with comorbid psychogenic pain. This research is a assessor blinded, randomized controlled trials. 60 patients will be randomly divided into comprehensive electro-acupuncture group and western medicine citalopram for 8 weeks treatment and the therapeutic effect is done at the end of 1,2,4,6,8 week.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
• Treatments: Citalopram; Dexetimide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Conform with the diagnostic criteria of depression according to DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS (DSM-5TM)

• Age from 18 to 50 year-old

• Patients with the first onset depression

• Patients with mild-to-moderate depression scored 12-30 by Montgomery scale

• Patients with one psychogenic pain at least, and the degree of VAS is 3 or more

• Volunteer participants willing to cooperate and obeying the treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant woman

• Patients with severe primary diseases and acute diseases of heart, brain, liver, kidney and hematopoietic systems and infectious disease, malignant tumor

• Patients who can't stop taking drugs according to the requirement in the treatment period

• Patients with a history of schizophrenia and other mental disorders

• Patients with cognitive impairment or personality disorders

• Patients have serious suicide idea or suicidal behavior