Effect of acupressure on pain of preterm infants

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Pain, prematurity.; Newborn health examination; Z00.11

• Registration Number: IRCT20210630051743N1
• Lead Sponsor: Khoram-Abad University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 11 January 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

Gestational age of infants be 32_36 weeks.
The infants weighs more than 1500 grams.
24 hours have passed since their birth (to establish the general condition of the baby).
Apgar score in the first and fifth minutes after birth be higher than 7.
Parents have full consent for the baby to enter the study.
Clinical and physiological status of cardiorespiratory neonates (heart rate between 100 to 160 beats per minute and spo2 higher or equal to 90%) and neonatal body temperature should be 36.2-37 ° C.
The infants have healthy skin without skin lesions on the hands under Hegu point massage and feet under BL60 and K3 point massage.
The infants should be awake and calm.

Exclusion Criteria

The mother has used narcotic during pregnancy.
There be any acute or chronic pain before injection.
The infants have congenital (cardiac, gastrointestinal) and chromosomal abnormalities.
The infants have neurological, metabolic, hypoglycemic, and febrile disorders.
The infants have be seizure symptoms.
The infants be fed within half an hour before the intramuscular injection.
Any problems with vitamin K injections (repeated injections, inappropriate site selection, injection angle, injection depth, wrong choice of drug type or volume of drug) should be detected immediately or after video control.
37 weeks of pregnancy of the infants is complete after birth.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain score. Timepoint: before, during and after the intervention. Method of measurement: Alps scale.;Sphysiological responses. Timepoint: before, during and after the intervention. Method of measurement: Monitoring.