Auricular acupressure improves implantation rate of in vitro fertilizatio
Completed
- Conditions
- implantation rate in in vitro fertilizationanxietyReproductive Health and Childbirth - Fertility including in vitro fertilisationMental Health - AnxietyAlternative and Complementary Medicine - Other alternative and complementary medicine
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 342
Inclusion Criteria
The women were healthy women with regular menstrual cycles and normal sex hormone levels. No structural abnormalities of uterus and ovaries were found by vaginal ultrasound or laparoscopy. None of the women had received any assisted reproductive technology (ART) therapy before.
Exclusion Criteria
We excluded all the patients who were not fluent in Chinese, the patients with neurologic or psychiatric disorders, the patients who were taking any tranquillizer, acupressure or acupuncture therapy, patients with an ear deformity, or the patients with a history of smoking or drinking.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The levels of state anxiety, preoperative anxiety (including anesthesia related anxiety and surgery related anxiety) and the need-for-information were rated with State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS)[on the morning of the last day of trans-vaginal oocyte retrieval and on the morning of the day of embryo transfer]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Data of clinical pregnancy rate (defined as the presence of at least one gestational sac or fetal heartbeat, confirmed by trans-vaginal ultrasound) for all the women were obtained from the medical records.[42 days after the embryo transfer];Data of implantation rate (defined as the number of gestational sacs per number of transferred oocytes) for all the women were obtained from the medical records.[42 days after the embryo transfer]