{"id":40802239340,"date":"2019-07-31T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802239340"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:22:51","slug":"belinda-anderson-speaks-on-new-clinical-trial-models-for-assessing-acupuncture-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/belinda-anderson-speaks-on-new-clinical-trial-models-for-assessing-acupuncture-effectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Belinda Anderson Presents on Clinical Trial Models for Assessing Acupuncture Effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Belinda (Beau) Anderson, Ph.D., M.A.Ed., presented at the Society for Acupuncture Research annual conference,\u00a0“Acupuncture Research, Health Care Policy, and Community Health:\u00a0Closing the Loop,”\u00a0held at the University of Vermont in June 2019.<\/p>\n

Anderson presented on new clinical trial models for assessing acupuncture effectiveness, suggesting that models that assess acupuncture within real-world contexts better inform the value of acupuncture in dealing with issues like the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n

Such trials use acupuncture treatment approaches that incorporate the complex aspects of real-world acupuncture therapy. These trials use outcome instruments that collect data specific to the condition under investigation (for example, pain scales), and quality of life (QOL) instruments.<\/p>\n

QOL instruments measure five conceptual domains: material and physical well-being, relationships with other people, social, community and civic activities, personal development and fulfillment, and recreation.<\/p>\n

“These aspects are important to determining the overall impact of an intervention and are especially important for pain studies because it is well established that pain is a complex biopsychosocial condition,” said Anderson.<\/p>\n

Anderson is an advisory council member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health<\/a> (NCCIH), which recently established the PRISM program to support research embedded in health care systems that will collect real-world data on the effectiveness of pain interventions and assess the impact of implementing these interventions upon pain management.\u00a0PRISM is currently launching a pragmatic trial of acupuncture for chronic low back pain in older adults in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belinda (Beau) Anderson, Ph.D., M.A.Ed., presented at the Society for Acupuncture Research annual conference,\u00a0“Acupuncture Research, Health Care Policy, and Community Health:\u00a0Closing the Loop,”\u00a0held at the University of Vermont in June 2019. Anderson presented on new clinical trial models for assessing acupuncture effectiveness, suggesting that models that assess acupuncture within real-world contexts better inform the value […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":40802239520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662,423,1],"tags":[],"person":[659],"audience":[14,17,11,8,29],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802239340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-health-and-wellness","category-faculty-perspectives","category-uncategorized","person-banderso","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-media"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802239340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802239340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802239340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802239530,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802239340\/revisions\/40802239530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802239520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802239340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802239340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802239340"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802239340"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802239340"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802239340"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802239340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}