Auriculotherapy in the Treatment of Pre-Operative Anxiety
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Official title
Auriculotherapy in the Treatment of Pre-Operative Anxiety - A Randomized, Prospective, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial
Brief summary
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The goal of this clinical trial is to use the validated PROMIS Emotional Distress - Anxiety - Short Form 8a and PROMIS Emotional Distress-Depression-Short Form pre-and post-intervention to establish a superior correlation between the auriculotherapy treatment and the reduction of perioperative anxiety. Subject population will include those having a partial or total nephrectomy for cancer. Drawing the role that auriculotherapy may play in reducing perioperative anxiety related requirement after surgery may also help in reducing the risk of opioid use disorders (OUD) since anxiety has been found to be a major risk factor for OUD in surgical patients. Therefore, this trial will also examine the effect of the auriculotherapy intervention in reducing opioid requirement after surgery.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04836936
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 60 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Auriculotherapy cryopuncture device without nitrogen gas Device
- Auriculotherapy cryopuncture device with nitrogen gas Device
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
- Apr 13, 2021 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Apr 28, 2026 (Actual)
- Completion
- Aug 30, 2026 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Oct 29, 2026
2021 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Shadyside Hospital | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15232 | — |
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- Last update posted Oct 29, 2026 · Synced Oct 30, 2026
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