Transcutaneous electrical stimulation on submandibular region

JRCT ID: jRCTs062180076

Registered date:20/03/2019

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Not Recruiting
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: none of disease, healthy
• Date of first enrollment: 09/06/2020
• Target sample size: 30
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): Submandibular region is stimulated transcutaneous-electrically with EMS device (OMRON HV-F320) in 10 minutes. Stimulated saliva amount after the intervention, resting saliva amount on 10 minutes after the intervention and the amount on baseline are compared. Additionally, physical change is checked with a questionnaire.

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: saliva amount (resting and stimulated)
• Secondary Outcome: subjective physical change: discomfort of stimulated region, feeling of fatigue, discomfort of skin, easiness of opening mouth, oral wetness, physical fatigue

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 20age old
• Age maximum: <= 64age old
• Gender: Female
• Include criteria: healthy faculty members or students of Tokushima University Faculty of Dentistry, or medical staff without basic disease with informed consent of the study

Exclude criteria

person with a basic disease
pregnant female
person with medication
person without informed consent of the study
inappropriate person determined by the researcher

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Matsuyama Miwa
• Source(s) of Monetary Support: OMRON Corporation,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research; KAKENHI)