The effects of acupressure on anxiety and vital signs of the patients before the abdominal surgeries
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Generalized anxiety disorder.Generalized anxiety disorder
- Registration Number
- IRCT138811203311N1
- Lead Sponsor
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
Inclusion Criteria
not having any special problems in the spot of receiving acupressure, not having any sight disorder that can prevent choosing the proper spot in the standard of anxiety examination, not receiving tranquilizers, painkillers, or drugs effective on anxiety such as Inderal for more than one month.
Exclusion criteria: having pain, epilepsy, or mental disorder, history of using acupressure, presence of thyroid diseases, addiction to drugs, pregnancy, previous surgery due to malignancy
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Preoperative anxiety. Timepoint: before,immidiatedly after(10 min) and 30 min after intervention. Method of measurement: Visual analog scale(0-10) for anxiety.;Vital sign. Timepoint: before,immidiatedly after(10 min) and 30 min after the intervention. Method of measurement: A mercury manometer to measure the blood pressure, clock for Heart and respiratory rate.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method