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Pilot of Acupuncture to Improve Quality of Life in Veterans With TBI and PTSD
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Acupuncture treatment for Post-traumatic Stress Disorders. Completed, enrolled 34 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The purpose of this study is to examine if acupuncture improves Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms among veterans who participated in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. This study will also examine the degree of veteran acceptance for acupuncture.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
This project was initially designed as a randomized trial with one group receiving treatment and the other wait list control, with delayed treatment. Due to extremely high dropout and cancellations and failure to return for post assessment, a midpoint assessment was added. Analysis was done on pre and post measures of all subjects who completed at least the midpoint assessment. Due to the very small number of subjects in the wait list control, the ones who completed 6 or 12 weeks of acupuncture after the wait list were combined with the few who completed the initial acupuncture for a pre-post single group analysis. for those who completed both the 6 and 12 week measures, the latest one was selected for analysis