Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 9:08 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 9:08 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01726504
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* meeting the diagnosis of Rome III criteria for chronic functional constipation;
* severe chronic constipation: two or fewer spontaneous complete bowel movements per week for more than 3 months;
* 18-75 years old;
* no use of medicine for constipation during the two weeks before enrollment (except rescue medication);
* no acupuncture treatment for constipation in recent 3 months;
* never joined any other trial in process in 3 months;
* volunteered to join this research and signed the informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and constipation caused by endocrine, metabolic, nervous or postoperative diseases or drugs;
* constipation accompanied by serious cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, or psychiatric disease, cognitive dysfunction or aphasia, or severe dystrophy affecting the cooperation for examination or treatment;
* pregnant women or women in lactation period
* constipation accompanied by abdominal aneurysm, hepatosplenomegaly, etcetera;
* bleeding disorders, or regular anticoagulant drug users, such as warfarin and heparin, etcetera;
* cardiac pacemaker carrier.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
75 Years
Study:
NCT01726504
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01726504