PEACE: Comparing Chronic Pain Treatment Options
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Official title
Personalize Electro-acupuncture vs. Auricular-acupuncture Comparative Effectiveness
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to compare two types of acupuncture with usual care on treating chronic pain. This study has three groups. Two groups will received acupuncture. One group will receive usual standard of care for 12 weeks and then will receive acupuncture. Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese technique of using very thin needles inserted in the skin to treat different symptoms and illness, and to promote healing. Each group will undergo a different method of needle administration.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02979574
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 360 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Electro-Acupuncture (EA) Procedure
- Battle Field Acupuncture (BFA) Procedure
- Wait List Control (WLC) Device
Procedure · Device
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 31, 2016
- Primary completion
- Oct 31, 2026
- Completion
- Oct 31, 2026
- Last update posted
- Dec 3, 2025
2016 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 7
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 7
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge | Basking Ridge | New Jersey | 07920 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth | Middletown | New Jersey | 07748 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen | Montvale | New Jersey | 07645 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack | Commack | New York | 11725 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester | Harrison | New York | 10604 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Rockville Centre | Rockville Centre | New York | 11570 | — |
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- Last update posted Dec 3, 2025 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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