Clinical Trial: Auricular Acupuncture Therapy Administered by Village Doctors Improves Sleep Quality in Elderly Patients With Comorbid Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension

U.S., April 29 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07554235) titled 'Auricular Acupuncture Therapy Administered by Village Doctors Improves Sleep Quality in Elderly Patients With Comorbid Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension' on April 07.

Brief Summary: This study aims to apply traditional auricular press-needle acupuncture to treat sleep disturbances in elderly patients (aged >=65 years) with comorbid diabetes mellitus and hypertension in rural areas of China. Given the complex bidirectional relationship between diabetes mellitus with hypertension and sleep disturbances, this cluster randomized trial is designed to test whether a village doctor-led intervention model supported by telemedicine can imp...