Dos Santos Mayra Evelise, Polloni Larissa Bachir, Intelangelo Leonardo, Campos Denys Batista, Ferreira Kariny Realino do Rosário, Macedo Maria de Cassia Gomes, Leal Ana Clara, Gama Gabriela Lopes, Barbosa Michelle Almeida, Barbosa Alexandre Carvalho
Department of Physiotherapy, Musculoskeletal Research Center-NIME, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, São Pedro, Governador Valadares, Brazil.
Raphaël Nogier Clinical Auriculotherapy School, Sorocaba, Taiwan.
Med Acupunct. 2025 Apr 17;37(2):166-174. doi: 10.1089/acu.2024.0092. eCollection 2025 Apr.
To assess the auriculotherapy practitioners' training profile, their baseline characteristics, how they perceive the auriculotherapy efficacy, and the technique's adverse effects.
A total of 193 participants answered a structured survey containing their baseline and training characteristics, along with an adapted version of the Clinical Global Impressions questionnaire, to assess the practitioners' perceptions of illness severity, symptom changes, and technique efficacy.
The cohort was composed of a multidisciplinary group of middle-aged, female auriculotherapy practitioners who predominantly treated adults and older adults at their private practice using auriculotherapy ∼1-2 times per week. The training was >40 hours online formatted, considered sufficient for clinical purposes. Auriculotherapy was perceived as highly effective in treating mild and moderate symptoms, improving symptoms' severity, patients' functionality, quality of life, and treatment satisfaction, with no or very mild adverse effects.
Practitioners perceived auriculotherapy as effective in improving patients' symptomatology. Gender characteristics were a feature of practitioners' characteristics, along with training time, private practicing environment, and the incoherent perception/management of the mild adverse effects.
评估耳穴疗法从业者的培训情况、基线特征、他们对耳穴疗法疗效的看法以及该技术的不良反应。
共有193名参与者回答了一份结构化调查问卷，其中包含他们的基线和培训特征，以及一份改编版的临床总体印象问卷，以评估从业者对疾病严重程度、症状变化和技术疗效的看法。
该队列由多学科的中年女性耳穴疗法从业者组成，她们主要在私人诊所为成年人和老年人进行治疗，每周使用耳穴疗法约1 - 2次。培训采用40多个小时的在线形式，从业者认为这对于临床目的来说足够了。耳穴疗法在治疗轻度和中度症状、改善症状严重程度、患者功能、生活质量和治疗满意度方面被认为非常有效，且没有或只有非常轻微的不良反应。
从业者认为耳穴疗法在改善患者症状方面是有效的。性别特征是从业者特征之一，此外还有培训时间、私人执业环境以及对轻微不良反应的认知/管理不一致等情况。
