Acupuncture Trial Protocol for Post-Stroke Vascular Vertigo

234 patients with post-stroke vascular vertigo are enrolled in a multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled trial. The study protocol details a 1-week induction, 3-week treatment, and follow-ups at 8 and 20 weeks, comparing acupuncture, sham acupuncture, and active drug interventions. Primary and secondary outcomes include the Dizziness Handicap Inventory, Dizziness and Anxiety Rating Scale, and multimodal MRI data.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) scores and treatment group assignment (acupuncture, sham, drug).
• Correlate Expectation Rating Scale (ERS) data with clinical outcomes like SF-36 scores to assess placebo effects.
• Use transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) and multimodal MRI data to explore central nervous system mechanisms linked to vertigo symptom changes.
• Track adverse event records across the three intervention groups to compare treatment safety profiles.

Strengths

• Protocol for a rigorously designed multicenter, double-blind, randomized controlled trial.
• Includes 234 planned patient enrollees from four subcenters.
• Defines multiple clinical and mechanistic outcome measures, including DHI, DARS, SF-36, TCD, and MRI.

Limitations

• Dataset is a 169.9 KB PDF study protocol, not the resulting trial data; contains no patient-level observations.
• The actual clinical and imaging results from the trial are not included in this file.
• Limited scope as a single document outlining the study design and methodology.

Provenance

Source

Author Lina Pang, published on figshare.

Collection Method

Study protocol document for a planned clinical trial.

Time Range

Trial includes a 3-week treatment period and follow-ups at 8 and 20 weeks.

Freshness

Protocol last updated on 2026-03-25.

Geography

Multicenter trial conducted at four subcenters, affiliated with Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.