Clinical Trial: Clinical Trial of Traditional Chinese Diaoshi Jifa Therapy of Meniere's Disease

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: A Random Controlled Clinical Trial:l Traditional Chinese Diaoshi Jifa Therapy of Meniere's Disease

Brief Summary: The hypothesis of this study is that DiaoShi Jifa reduces the symptoms, such as dizziness in patients with Meniere's disease.

Detailed Summary: Created by Dr. Diao, DiaoShi Jifa is a well-known traditional Chinese Medicine approach to treat dizziness in patients with chronic diseases. The investigators designed this randomized clinical trial to examine whether Diaoshi Jifa significantly decreases dizziness in patients with Meniere's disease. There are 2 arms in this trial: One arm is DiaoShi Jifa plus conventional Western medical treatment, another is conventional Western medical treatment only. The dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) will be used to evaluate the treatment effect.
Sponsor: Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau

Current Primary Outcome: Change in Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) Questionnaire Score [ Time Frame: 0 and 24 hours ]

dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) evaluates the self-perceived handicapping effects imposed by vestibular system disease. We employed the final version of DHI, which contains 25 items including 7 physical questions, 9 functional questions and 9 emotional questions. DHI has a total score of 100 points (4 points for each item). Higher scores indicate more severe handicap. Thus the maximum score for DHI is 100, while the minimum core is 0.


Original Primary Outcome: Change in dizziness Handicap Index (DHI) Questionnaire score [ Time Frame: 0 and 24 hours ]

DHI will be used for efficacy assessment.


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Information By: Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau

Dates:
Date Received: June 1, 2011
Date Started: January 2011
Date Completion:
Last Updated: November 23, 2012
Last Verified: January 2012