Trial reportMedicine2018
Effect of laser acupuncture on dry eye: A study protocol for a 2-center randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Laser Acupuncture Therapy in Patients With Dry Eye: A Two-center Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of Acupuncture on Xerostomia and Xerophthalmia in Sjögren's Syndrome: a Randomized, Double-blinded Clinical Trial
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Laser Acupuncture Improves Tear Film Stability in Patients with Dry Eye Disease: A Two-Center Randomized-Controlled Trial.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Trial
- A Review of Acupuncture for the Treatment of Dry Eye Syndrome: Mechanisms, Efficacy, and Clinical Implications.International journal of general medicine · 2025Review
- Alternative therapies for dry eye disease.Current opinion in ophthalmology · 2021Review
- Dry Eye Disease: A Review of Epidemiology in Taiwan, and its Clinical Treatment and Merits.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundDry eye is a common ophthalmologic disorder that causes ocular discomfort and has become a worldwide health concern. Patients with dry eye often turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) because of unsatisfactory conventional treatments. Acupuncture is one of the most popular interventions of CAM used, and laser acupuncture (LA) is a noninvasive technique.
methodsThis protocol is a 2-center randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of laser acupuncture on dry eye. Two hundred participants aged 20 to 65 years will be randomly assigned to the experimental group (LA plus conventional treatment) or the sham control group (LA without laser output plus conventional treatment) at 2 clinical research centers in South Taiwan. The subjects will undergo LA treatment thrice a week for 12 weeks. The subjects in the experimental group will sequentially receive 0.375 J of energy at each of the following acupoints: BL2, TE23, ST2, LI4, ST36, and GB37. The subjects in the control group will also receive a sham LA treatment, without any laser output. Outcome assessments will include evaluation of the ocular surface disease index (OSDI), tear film break-up time (TFBUT), Schirmer-I test finding, and the visual analog scale (VAS) score at 4 and 12 weeks before treatment. The OSDI, TFBUT, Schirmer-I test result, and VAS score of the participants will be analyzed and compared between the experimental and control groups using the paired t test and one-way analysis of variance.
objectivesThe aim of this protocol is to investigate the efficacy of LA therapy in patients with dry eye.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT03204903.
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