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Clinical trialNCT00010517CompletedPhase 3Interventional

Acupuncture in the Treatment of Depression

SponsorNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)DepressionDepressive Disorders
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The current large randomized placebo-controlled trial is testing the ability of acupuncture to treat major depression. The study is unique in that treatment effects will be from the perspective of both Western psychiatry and Chinese medicine.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Arizona

    Tucson, Arizona, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Sept 1997
Primary completion
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Completion
30 Apr 2002
Last update posted
7 Mar 2008
Registered enrollment
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Registry id
NCT00010517
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.