Pregnancy Success Rates of Acupuncture for in Vitro Fertilization

NCT03572608 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: B.30.2.ATA.0.01.00/120
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of acupuncture on pregnancy success before embryo transfer in IVF treatment in female infertile patients. Half of participants will receive acupuncture sessions before embryo transfer, while the other half will not receive.

Conditions

Infertility, Female

Keywords

acupuncture; infertility; pregnancy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• pregnancy

  positive betaHCG

  2 weeks after the treatment

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Anxiety level

  Through study completion, 2 weeks after the protocol

Study Arms (2)

Acupuncture Treatment

EXPERIMENTAL

Acupuncture group will receive 3 acupuncture sessions. The first session will be one week before embryo transfer. The second session will be 30 minute before embryo transfer. And the last session will be 30 minute after embryo transfer.

Other: Acupuncture treatment

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Control Group will not receive any acupuncture session before or after embryo transfer.

Interventions

Acupuncture treatment OTHER

Classical acupuncture points will be used without a formal traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis in the intervention group. Neither manual needle stimulation nor moxibustion will used. The needles will left in place for 30 min and de qi was not sought. The points will be selected bilateral Heart-7, bilateral Large Intestine-4, Governing Vessel-20 and ear shenmen for the first session. Bilateral Conception Vessel-3,4,6, bilateral Liver-3, bilateral Stomach-30, bilateral Spleen-6, bilateral Governing Vessel-20 will be used for the second session. Bilateral Large Intestine-4, bilateral Spleen-6,9, bilateral Stomach-36 will be used for the last session. All acupuncture points will be selected and localized on the basis of the WHO Standardised Acupuncture Point Location.

Acupuncture Treatment

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 23 Years - 45 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: self-representation
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• To have unexplained infertility
• To go in vitro fertilization treatment
• To give permission by informed consent form

You may not qualify if:

• Below age of 18 and above age of 45
• To have secondary infertility
• To reject completing informed consent form

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ataturk University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ataturk University Hospital

Erzurum, 25040, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Infertility, Female; Infertility

Interventions

Acupuncture Therapy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Genital Diseases, Female; Female Urogenital Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications; Urogenital Diseases; Genital Diseases

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics

Study Officials

• Bunyamin Borekci

  Ataturk University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assoc. Prof. Yasemin Cayir

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 28, 2018
• First Posted: June 28, 2018
• Study Start: June 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2018
• Study Completion: October 1, 2018
• Last Updated: June 28, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-06

Locations

TU (1)