InsomniaNCT03165370
The Study of the Relationship of Insomnia in the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine at Local Clinic
An observational study of Insomnia, run by China Medical University Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.
Trial summary
Insomnia is one of the most main diseases of civilization in the world, which chronic insomnia is up to 30% in Taiwan under the latest statistics and a common disease which appears to sleep difficultly, sleep interrupted, wake up early or wake up still tired. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 20 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Insomnia
- How many people
- 200 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTaiwan
- Study dates
- 19 May 2017to 4 May 2018
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 20 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: an Chinese medicine clinic at Miaoli County
Who may be able to join
- Compliance with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-10 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV and other international standards in the diagnosis of non-organic insomnia criteria to determine the main diagnosis and secondary diagnosis of insomnia: A. Complaint of difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, or waking up too early, or sleep that is chronically nonrestorative or poor in quality. B. Any sleep difficulty at least three times a week and during the period of the last month. C. Over concerns or worries about sleep. D. The night time sleep difficulty is related to daytime impairment: mood disturbance or social and vocational dysfunction
- Cooperation with physician voluntarily, communication with physician normally
Who cannot join
- Teenagers and babies
- Insomnia associated with other sleep disorders most commonly includes sleep related breathing disorders (e.g.,obstructive sleep apnea), movement disorders (e.g.,restless legs or periodic limb movements during sleep) or circadian rhythm sleep disorders;
- Insomnia due to medical or psychiatric disorders (Schizophrenia, paranoia, affective psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, organic psychosis like brain injury, epilepsy, dementia and so on), or to drug/substance (comorbid insomnia); and
- Primary insomnias including psychophysiological, idiopathic, and paradoxical insomnias.
- Lack of intelligence or other reasons it is difficult to correctly fill the questionnaire
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Taiwan1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Zhunan Ho-Te Chinese medicine clinic
Miaoli County, 350
Shin-Huey Tseng, 886-956272668, u105043001@cmu.edu.tw
About this study
Insomnia is one of the most main diseases of civilization in the world, which chronic insomnia is up to 30% in Taiwan under the latest statistics and a common disease which appears to sleep difficultly, sleep interrupted, wake up early or wake up still tired. Long-term persistence of these symptoms will lead to the occurrence of mental illness and then affect people's emotional behavior and cognitive memory, showing that insomnia is an important modern health issues. Recently, "individual response patterns" was proposed by modern medicine. This thinking process and spirit seems to be compatible with the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy of "Differential Treatment". The purpose of this study, the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), commonly used to quickly screen for insomnia patients and the evaluation of Western medicine efficacy in Western medicine clinic, and investigation of Syndrome Type of TCM to find out whether with Syndrome Type of TCM and AIS in the associated factors, and confirm the necessity and importance of Syndrome Type of TCM, for future reference and basis for the development of integrated medicine.
In the cross-section study with an interview on survey, sampling Miaoli County an Chinese medicine clinic, in line with standard sampling of 200 patients with insomnia were recruited. The questionnaires contained two instruments including Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), and Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. Cross-table, chi-square test, variance analysis and Pearson product-moment correlation was used to find the relation.
Read the detailed description
Insomnia is a common sleep disturbance, there were more than a quarter of people with sleep disorders, the prevalence with more and higher, seriously affecting the health and quality of life. The Athens Insomnia Scale (referred to as AIS) can help physicians more accurately diagnose and understand the state of insomnia patients. The purpose of this study was investigated the correlation among the disease status, treatment and AIS assessment, hoping enough traditional Chinese physician and Western physician's clinical reference. Methods: This study used the cross-sectional questionnaire survey with the convenience sampling method. Screened 200 patients according to the diagnostic criteria for insomnia and conducted a survey from the local clinic at Miaoli County.
- Conditions
- Insomnia
- Medical subject headings
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Insomnia | those with unsatisfactory sleep quantity and/or quality (difficulty with sleep induction, awakenings during the night, early morning awakening, total sleep time, and overall quality of sleep), complaint of a minimum frequency (at least three times a week) and duration (1 month), marked distress caused by the sleep problem and/or interference with ordinary activities of daily living |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Questionnaires and Data analysis
Scores for each sleep dimension on the AIS questionnaire compared to Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. The AIS questionnaire contains 8 items which are rated on 0-3 scale ("0" means "no problem", "1" means "mild problem", "2" means "marked problem", "3" means "severe problem"). For each dimension, item scores are coded, summed, and transformed on to a scale from 0 (best sleep) to 24 (worst sleep) as an individual's sleep outcome. Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire contains 6 patterns: pattern of yin deficiency with effulgent fire, pattern of deficiency of both heart and spleen, pattern of liver depression transforming into fire, pattern of phlegm-heat harassing internally, pattern of heart and gallbladder qi insufficiency, the other patterns as well and case numbers are counted as an TCM pattern's outcome. Finally, study the distribution law of insomnia's TCM pattern identification and relative factors of AIS.
Measured: Patients were estimated any sleep difficulty during the period of last 4 weeks and then finished record about 15-20 minutes. A copy was done after 2 weeks. From date of randomization until the date of final documented progression, assessed 2 months.
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 May 2017
- Study start19 May 2017
- Primary completion4 May 2018 (estimated)
- Study completion4 May 2018 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for InsomniaStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by China Medical University HospitalThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Enrolment
- 200 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- China Medical University Hospital
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Ching-Liang Hsieh, China Medical University Hospital
- Investigators
- Ching-Liang Hsieh, Principal investigator, China Medical University Hospital
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03165370
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- CRREC-106-028
- Status last verified
- May 2017
- First submitted
- 18 May 2017
- Last updated
- 24 May 2017
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Chiu HY, Chang LY, Hsieh YJ, Tsai PS. A meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy of three screening tools for insomnia. J Psychosom Res. 2016 Aug;87:85-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.06.010. Epub 2016 Jun 25.
PubMed 27411756
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 24 May 2017. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Study of the Relationship of Insomnia in the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine at Local Clinic
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03165370
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- CRREC-106-028
- Conditions
- Insomnia
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 200 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- China Medical University HospitalUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 19 May 2017 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 4 May 2018 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 4 May 2018 (estimated)
- First posted
- 24 May 2017 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Insomnia is one of the most main diseases of civilization in the world, which chronic insomnia is up to 30% in Taiwan under the latest statistics and a common disease which appears to sleep difficultly, sleep interrupted, wake up early or wake up still tired. Long-term persistence of these symptoms will lead to the occurrence of mental illness and then affect people's emotional behavior and cognitive memory, showing that insomnia is an important modern health issues. Recently, "individual response patterns" was proposed by modern medicine. This thinking process and spirit seems to be compatible with the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy of "Differential Treatment". The purpose of this study, the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), commonly used to quickly screen for insomnia patients and the evaluation of Western medicine efficacy in Western medicine clinic, and investigation of Syndrome Type of TCM to find out whether with Syndrome Type of TCM and AIS in the associated factors, and confirm the necessity and importance of Syndrome Type of TCM, for future reference and basis for the development of integrated medicine.
In the cross-section study with an interview on survey, sampling Miaoli County an Chinese medicine clinic, in line with standard sampling of 200 patients with insomnia were recruited. The questionnaires contained two instruments including Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), and Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. Cross-table, chi-square test, variance analysis and Pearson product-moment correlation was used to find the relation.
Detailed description
Insomnia is a common sleep disturbance, there were more than a quarter of people with sleep disorders, the prevalence with more and higher, seriously affecting the health and quality of life. The Athens Insomnia Scale (referred to as AIS) can help physicians more accurately diagnose and understand the state of insomnia patients. The purpose of this study was investigated the correlation among the disease status, treatment and AIS assessment, hoping enough traditional Chinese physician and Western physician's clinical reference. Methods: This study used the cross-sectional questionnaire survey with the convenience sampling method. Screened 200 patients according to the diagnostic criteria for insomnia and conducted a survey from the local clinic at Miaoli County.
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Insomnia | – | –those with unsatisfactory sleep quantity and/or quality (difficulty with sleep induction, awakenings during the night, early morning awakening, total sleep time, and overall quality of sleep), complaint of a minimum frequency (at least three times a week) and duration (1 month), marked distress caused by the sleep problem and/or interference with ordinary activities of daily living |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 20 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- an Chinese medicine clinic at Miaoli County
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Compliance with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-10 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV and other international standards in the diagnosis of non-organic insomnia criteria to determine the main diagnosis and secondary diagnosis of insomnia: A. Complaint of difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, or waking up too early, or sleep that is chronically nonrestorative or poor in quality. B. Any sleep difficulty at least three times a week and during the period of the last month. C. Over concerns or worries about sleep. D. The night time sleep difficulty is related to daytime impairment: mood disturbance or social and vocational dysfunction
- Cooperation with physician voluntarily, communication with physician normally
Key exclusion criteria (5 listed)
- Teenagers and babies
- Insomnia associated with other sleep disorders most commonly includes sleep related breathing disorders (e.g.,obstructive sleep apnea), movement disorders (e.g.,restless legs or periodic limb movements during sleep) or circadian rhythm sleep disorders;
- Insomnia due to medical or psychiatric disorders (Schizophrenia, paranoia, affective psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, organic psychosis like brain injury, epilepsy, dementia and so on), or to drug/substance (comorbid insomnia); and
- Primary insomnias including psychophysiological, idiopathic, and paradoxical insomnias.
- Lack of intelligence or other reasons it is difficult to correctly fill the questionnaire
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Primary outcome
Questionnaires and Data analysis
Time frame: Patients were estimated any sleep difficulty during the period of last 4 weeks and then finished record about 15-20 minutes. A copy was done after 2 weeks. From date of randomization until the date of final documented progression, assessed 2 months.
Scores for each sleep dimension on the AIS questionnaire compared to Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. The AIS questionnaire contains 8 items which are rated on 0-3 scale ("0" means "no problem", "1" means "mild problem", "2" means "marked problem", "3" means "severe problem"). For each dimension, item scores are coded, summed, and transformed on to a scale from 0 (best sleep) to 24 (worst sleep) as an individual's sleep outcome. Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire contains 6 patterns: pattern of yin deficiency with effulgent fire, pattern of deficiency of both heart and spleen, pattern of liver depression transforming into fire, pattern of phlegm-heat harassing internally, pattern of heart and gallbladder qi insufficiency, the other patterns as well and case numbers are counted as an TCM pattern's outcome. Finally, study the distribution law of insomnia's TCM pattern identification and relative factors of AIS.
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 24 May 2017.
- Background: PubMed 27411756Chiu HY, Chang LY, Hsieh YJ, Tsai PS. A meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy of three screening tools for insomnia. J Psychosom Res. 2016 Aug;87:85-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.06.010. Epub 2016 Jun 25.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Ching-Liang Hsieh principal investigator
China Medical University Hospital
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Insomnia, run by China Medical University Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 5 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 May 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Taiwan. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Shin-Huey Tseng (+886-956272668, u105043001@cmu.edu.tw), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Questionnaires and Data analysis (time frame: Patients were estimated any sleep difficulty during the period of last 4 weeks and then finished record about 15-20 minutes. A copy was done after 2 weeks. From date of randomization until the date of final documented progression, assessed 2 months.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03165370, which also lists 1 linked publication.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 24 May 2017.