Use acupuncture to treat functional constipation: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Ying ^a   Zheng, Hui ^a   Zeng, Fang ^a   Zhou, Si yuan ^a   Zhong, Feng ^a   Zheng, Hua bing ^a   Chen, Min ^a   Jing, Xiang hong ^b   Cai, Yu ying ^b   Jia, Bao hui ^b   Zhu, Bing ^b   Liu, Zhi shun ^b  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Functional constipation; Study protocol

Indexed keywords

MOSAPRIDE; BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF-RATING ANXIETY SCALE; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE; SHORT FORM 36; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENZAMIDES; CHINA; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLINES; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863190869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-104     Document Type: Article

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