Bouhlel Saoussen, El-Hechmi Safouene, Ghanmi Latifa, Ghaouar Mabrouk, Besbes Chokri, Khaled Mehrez, Melki Wahid, El-Hechmi Zouhaier
Universite Tunis, El Manar, Tunisie.
Tunis Med. 2011 Oct;89(10):774-8.
Acupuncture is one of the most popular types of complementary/alternative medicine in the world. It is sometimes used as a treatment for schizophrenia mainly in China.
To assess the contribution of acupuncture in the treatment of patients treated for schizophrenia in Tunisian population.
Our study is a clinical randomized trial about 31 hospitalized patients with schizophrenia or schizo-affectif disorder (DSM IV). They were evaluated by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) the first and 23nd day of the study. Manual acupuncture was used for 10 sessions at the rate of three sessions per week. All patients were under drug therapy. Among them, 15 were treated by acupuncture and 16 by sham acupuncture.
Scores of the PANSS, SAPS and SANS were similar in the two groups at the end of the study.
Our study did not provide any evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating schizophrenic symptoms.
针灸是世界上最流行的补充和替代医学形式之一。在中国，它有时被用作治疗精神分裂症的一种方法。
评估针灸对突尼斯人群中精神分裂症患者治疗的贡献。
我们的研究是一项针对31名住院的精神分裂症或分裂情感性障碍（DSM-IV）患者的临床随机试验。在研究的第1天和第23天，通过阳性和阴性症状量表（PANSS）、阴性症状评估量表（SANS）和阳性症状评估量表（SAPS）对他们进行评估。采用手动针灸，每周3次，共10次。所有患者均接受药物治疗。其中，15名患者接受针灸治疗，16名患者接受假针灸治疗。
研究结束时，两组的PANSS、SAPS和SANS评分相似。
我们的研究没有提供任何证据表明针灸在治疗精神分裂症症状方面有效。
