The Effect of Acupressure and Massage on the Paın, Menstrual Symptoms and Qualıty of Lıfe ın Prımary Dysmenorrhea

Painful menstrual bleeding, also known as dysmenorrhea, is one of the common gynecological ailments that have health, social, and economic implications. Dysmenorrhea has psychological effects as well as its physiological effects on women. While it negatively affects the quality of daily life and performance of women, it also causes loss in work and school life. Acupressure application has a soothing, psychological and analgesic effect. Acupressure application is also effective in reducing labor pain, low back pain, dysmenorrhea, head, neck and shoulder pain. It is thought that acupressin used in combination with pharmacological methods may be effective in relieving pain or decreasing its severity, the rate of analgesic use may be reduced, therefore analgesic side effects may be less and the patient's quality of life will increase. positively affected. It is an important part of midwifery care in terms of its application areas and benefits. As it is an effective method, it is recommended to be used in the midwifery field in the literature, it is taught and applicable, does not require medical equipment, equipment and cost. There are no studies in the literature in which non-pharmacological methods of acupressure and massage are used in primary dysmenorrhea. It is among the duties, powers and responsibilities of midwives to comfort their patients with non-invasive interventional practice. Based on these, it is thought that the use of acupressure and massage in primary dysmenorrhea is necessary to examine the level of pain, menstrual symptoms and their effects on quality of life. The type of the study was planned as a randomized controlled pre-test-post-test study. The population of the study will be students who study at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University Faculty of Education, have dysmenorrhea and meet the study criteria. In the power analysis used to determine the sample size, 5% error level and 90% power were determined as a minimum of 89 people for each group. The data of the study will be collected between December and May 2020 with the Personal Information Form in which socio-demographic characteristics are questioned, the Visual Analogue Scale for the assessment of dysmenorrhea pain, the Daily Menstrual Symptom Assessment Scale, and the Short Form of the Quality of Life Scale. (SF-12). Students who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomly selected for the experimental and control groups.