The effect of exercise and acupressure on hot flash
- Conditions
- flushing.Flushing
- Registration Number
- IRCT20150424021917N8
- Lead Sponsor
- Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 99
Age 18-45 years old
Women with hot flash at least twice a day for 6 weeks
Completion of radiotherapy and chemotherapy at least 8 weeks before, the next referral of chemotherapy at least 10 weeks later
Women with 5 or more score in pittsburgh sleep disturbances questionnaire
Women with ductal or lobular insitu breast cancer or 1,2,3 stage without metastastasis
Without experience hot flash before breast cancer
without any sensory motor disorder
Women with BMI higher than 30 kg/m2
Use of hot flash reducing and sedative drugs
Women with hyperthyroidism
Doing any kind of exercise regularly and professionally
Apply acupuncture within 2 weeks before starting the study
Cardiovascular disease
Restrictions on physical activity
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hot flash. Timepoint: Before Intervention,Week 4 Intervention and Week 8 Intervention. Method of measurement: Hot flash scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sleep disorders. Timepoint: Before intervention, week 4 intervention and week 8 intervention. Method of measurement: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.;Satisfaction with the treatment. Timepoint: after intervention. Method of measurement: Survey.