NCT03053648

Self-acupressure for Insomnia

Status unknown NA Last updated 16 February 2017

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Self-acupressure in Insomnia in 30 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 December 2016

Primary endpoint
3 March 2017

31 March 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	30
Start date	1 December 2016
Primary completion	3 March 2017
Estimated completion	31 March 2017
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• Self-acupressure
• Sleep hygiene education

Conditions studied

• Insomnia — all drugs for Insomnia →
• Acupressure — all drugs for Acupressure →

Sponsor

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Insomnia or Acupressure. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Abstract

Objectives: To explore the clinical effects of self-acupressure for treating insomnia delivered by a training course.

Hypothesis: Subjects who have participated in the self-acupressure training course will have greater improvement in insomnia symptoms and daytime impairment than the sleep hygiene education control group at 4 and 8 weeks.

Design and subjects: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Subjects with insomnia will be recruited from the community. 30 subjects will be randomized to self-acupressure and sleep hygiene education control groups in a 1: 1 ratio. Study instrument: Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) will be used to assess insomnia symptoms and daytime impairment.

Interventions: Subjects in the self-acupressure group will attend two training sessions to learn self-acupressure and will practice self-acupressure every night for 4 weeks; subjects in the sleep hygiene education control group will receive two training sessions to learn sleep hygiene practice.

Main outcome measures: The primary outcome measure is the ISI score. Other measures include sleep parameters using subjective sleep diary, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and SF-6D at 4 and 8 weeks. Acceptability and sustainability of self-acupressure will also be evaluated.

Data Analysis: Differences in the questionnaire scores, subjective sleep parameters will be examined using a mixed-effects model.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.