Acupuncture as good as counseling for depression
People with depression may benefit as much from acupuncture as they do
from counseling, suggests a new study.
Researchers found one in three patients was no longer depressed after
three months of acupuncture or counseling, compared to one in five who received
neither treatment."For people who have depression, who have tried various
medical options, who are still not getting the benefit they want, they should
try acupuncture or counseling as options that are now known to be clinically
effective," said Hugh MacPherson, the study's lead author from the
University of York in the UK
Previous studies looking at whether acupuncture helps ease depression
have been inconclusive. Those studies were also small and didn't compare acupuncture
to other treatment options.
"What's more important for the patient is does it work in practice
and that is the question we were asking," MacPherson said.
For their study, he and his colleagues recruited 755 people with
moderate or severe depression. The researchers split participants into three
groups: 302 were randomly assigned to receive 12 weekly acupuncture sessions,
another 302 received weekly counseling sessions and 151 received usual care
only.
About 70 percent of people had taken antidepressants in the three months
before the study and about half reported taking pain medications. People did
not have to stop taking their medicine to participate in the study.
At the outset, participants had an average depression score of 16 on a
scale from 0 to 27, with higher scores symbolizing more severe depression. A 16
is considered moderately severe depression.
After three months, people assigned to the acupuncture group had an
average score of about 9 - on the higher end of the mild depression category.
Scores fell to 11 among members of the counseling group and about 13 in the
usual care group, both considered moderate depression.
Participants who received acupuncture or counseling saw larger
improvements over three months than those who had neither treatment. Those
benefits remained for an additional three months after the treatments stopped.
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