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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00599586
Date of registration: 03/01/2008
Primary sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Public title: Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture
Scientific title: Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture
Date of first enrolment: November 2007
Target sample size: 480
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00599586
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
China
Contacts
Name:   Fan-rong Liang, master
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Chengdu University of TCM
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65.(The subject is younger than
50 when he was ill for the first time.)

2. Consistent with the diagnostic criteria of Premonitory Migraine and Non- Premonitory
Migraine.

3. Attacks of migraine are equal to or more than 2 times in the last three months.

4. With more than one year history of migraine

5. Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. With serious protopathy or disease of cardiovascular, liver, renal,gastrointestinal,
hematological systems and so on.

2. Psychotic,patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding.

3. Patients have used drugs for preventing migraine in the last four weeks.

4. Pregnant women or women in lactation.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Migraine
Intervention(s)
Other: acupuncture
Primary Outcome(s)
frequency of migraine attacks [Time Frame: 4 weeks]
number of days with migraine [Time Frame: 4 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Migraine-Specific Quality-of-Life Questionnaire [Time Frame: a month]
Transcranial Doppler Sonography [Time Frame: a month]
Secondary ID(s)
2006CB5045011
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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