Clinical trial NCT02530853: Acupuncture as a Complementary Treatment for Hypertension (ACT-HAS)
Official title: Acupuncture as Applied Technology to Nursing Care Adult Hypertensive: An Experimental Study.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Hypertensive Disease
Lead sponsor: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ministry of Health, Brazil
name: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
First posted: 2015-08-21
Enrollment: 110
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 30
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This is a randomized clinical trial with blinded, multi-center, involving the Federal University of in Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ), through the School of Nursing Anna Nery, as a proponent and research coordinator; and as a collaborative educational institutions, the Federal University of in Espirito Santo, represented by the Department of Nursing; and the Higher School of Sciences of the Santa Casa de Misericordia of Vitoria, developed by building doctorate thesis as a final product of the research.

Detailed description: The objective of investigation is the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary health care to patients with primary hypertension drug therapy.

Methodological approach - Randomized Clinical Trial triple blind.

Population / sample - Patients with Primary Hypertension in drug treatment for over a year and no effective control of blood pressure levels, that is, regular saving measures above was over 140x90 mmHg.

How centers Participants Research, the study covers health units of the Municipal Health of Maricá in Rio de Janeiro, the Municipal of Victoria Health in Espirito Santo, beyond the scope of Integrated Project Research-Service (PIPA), linked to School Nursing Anna Nery /UFRJ.

Primary Objective - To evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary health practice associated with drug treatment used in adults with primary hypertension, based on nursing diagnoses.

Secondary objectives:

* Estimate blood pressure levels after exposure to acupuncture applied in adults with primary hypertension.
* Draw the profile of the most frequent nursing diagnoses in adults with primary hypertension.
* Analyze the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complementary health therapy associated with drug treatment used on these clients, based on nursing diagnoses.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Be suffering from essential hypertension;
* Be properly prescribed medication and have difficulty controlling blood pressure keeping regular measurement above was over 140x90 mmHg.

Exclusion Criteria:

* A woman in pregnancy;
* Be in possession of any type of cancer;
* being a smoker;
* be alcoholic;
* Be in drug treatment for other diseases including obesity;
* Not dieting for weight loss;
* practice regular physical activity.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Improvement of blood pressure levels.
timeFrame: six weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Improvement of nursing diagnoses
timeFrame: six weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Rio de Janeiro
country: Brazil
facility: Raphael
state: Maricá
Study officials:
affiliation: UFRJ
name: Neide Alvim
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: UFRJ
name: Claudia Pereira
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Pereira RDM, Alvim NAT, Pereira CD, Gomes Junior SCDS. Laser acupuncture protocol for essential systemic arterial hypertension: randomized clinical trial. Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2018 Jul 16;26:e2936. doi: 10.1590/1518-8345.1887.2936.