The Effect of Acupressure on Menopausal Symptoms
- Conditions
- MenopauseAcupressure
- Interventions
- Behavioral: acupressureBehavioral: Sham acupressure
- Registration Number
- NCT06016491
- Lead Sponsor
- Mersin University
- Brief Summary
This is a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled and single-blind study planned to determine the effect of acupressure application on menopausal symptoms.
The hypothesis of the study is that acupressure reduces women's menopausal symptoms.
- Detailed Description
Menopause is a physiological process during which most women have difficulties and face many problems. Acupressure can be taught and used safely as an effective method to manage the symptoms that women experience during menopause.
This study aims to determine the effect of acupressure on menopausal symptoms. The study has a prospective, randomized, sham-controlled, single-blind design. The research was conducted with 81 women (acupressure n=40, sham acupressure n=41) attending the "Menopause School" in a public hospital in Türkiye between July 05, 2021 and August 02, 2021. Both groups received acupressure application thrice a week for four weeks, 12 sessions in total. The data was obtained using a personal information form and a Menopause Rating Scale.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 81
- Able to speak and understand Turkish
- No psychiatric illness
- Natural menopause
- Not on hormone replacement therapy
- Women who volunteered to participate in the study and did not receive any integrated therapy were included.
- Those who have undergone menopause with the surgical method
- For lower extremity vascular disease, fracture, sprain or injury, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, thyroid disease, etc. with a diagnosis
- Women who received any integrative therapy were not included in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Acupressure group acupressure Before the acupressure application, the woman to be applied was informed in a quiet room for ease of application, and then she was ensured to be in a comfortable position. Women were taught to practice on a total of two points, the kidney meridian (Yong Quan-KD1) and the spleen meridian (Sanyinjiao-SP6). Since the symmetry of the selected two different points on the other extremity will also be applied, a total of 8 minutes of compression was applied to each point, provided that it was two minutes. Depending on the preparation and compression time on each point, an average of 10 minutes was applied to each patient, and then the patients were asked to apply it to themselves. After making sure that the women learned, they were asked to apply acupressure on their own. They applied a total of 12 sessions, three times a week for a total of four weeks. To remind the session day, information was given by the researcher via short message. Sham acupressure group Sham acupressure After all the preparations (suitability of sound and environment and information) before the application to the acupressure group were made in the sham group, the sham acupressure points determined parallel to the KD1 and SP6 points (approximately 1-1.5 cm away) were put on the bone area where the meridians do not pass has been applied. Similar to the acupressure group, the sham acupresuure group was treated with symmetrical extremities and for similar durations.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) Change from before implementation, 0th week and 4th week of practice Menopause symptom rating scale was used to evaluate menopausal symptoms. The Turkish reliability and validity study was conducted by Can (2005). The scale consists of 11 items and 3 sub-dimensions. For each item, there are "0=None", "1=Mild", "2=Moderate", "3=Severe" and "4=Very Severe" options. Sub-dimensions of the scale; somatic complaints (items 1,2,3 and 11), psychological complaints (items 4,5,6 and 7), and urogenital complaints (items 8,9 and 10). The total score of the scale ranges from 0 to 44. The somatic complaints sub-dimension is scored between 0-16, the psychological complaints sub-dimension 0-16, and the urogenital complaints sub-dimension 0-12. An increase in the total score obtained from the scale indicates that the severity of the complaints increases and the quality of life is negatively affected.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Mersin University
🇹🇷Mersin, Turkey