Effects of Therapeutic Tapping on Clinical Symptoms in Students With Primary Dysmenorrhea
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 67
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Visual Analog Scale
研究概览
简要总结
Dysmenorrhea is more common among women of reproductive age, as it affects their quality of life and limit their daily activities and normal functioning. The estimates of dysmenorrhea from research conducted all around the world varied widely, from 20% to 90%. This study is planned to determine the effects of KT on clinical symptoms, QOL and academic performance of students with Primary dysmenorrhea.
详细描述
Literature suggested that kinesio tape technique, one of the effective physiotherapy technique, used for Primary dysmenorrhea, to stimulate muscle movements, assist weak muscles (fascia and soft tissue), reduce discomfort and muscle cramps, facilitate proprioceptive input, boost lymph and blood flow, and relieve pain. This will be a randomized controlled trial, with three groups.
Participants in the experimental group will receive therapeutic tape on the sacral and suprapubic regions with the Star shape and ligament with general physical therapy session. Sham group (ST) group will receive sham taping with general physical therapy session. Participants in Control group (CG) will receive only general physical therapy session.
All groups will be assessed at baseline, at 8th week and 12th week for clinical symptoms, QOL and academic performance.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 25 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Nulliparous women with Primary dysmenorrhea
- •Aged between 18 and 25 years.
- •Having a regular menstruation cycle (28 ± 7 days)
- •Severity of menstrual pain on VAS: 4 and over in the previous 6 months.
排除标准
- •Secondary dysmenorrhea
- •Childbirth, pelvic surgery, use of an intrauterine device,
- •Malignant condition
- •Chronic medication; antidepressants or oral contraceptives for at least 6 months prior to study
- •Not volunteering to participate in the study
- •Having an allergy to K.
结局指标
主要结局
Visual Analog Scale
时间窗: Changes from 8th week to 12th week
It is a numeric rating scale from 0 to 10 where 0 represents "no pain" and 10 represents the "worst possible pain.it is used to rate the pain intensity in patients with primary dysmenorrhea.
Health-related life quality
时间窗: Changes from 8th week to 12th week
Health-related life quality using the Short Form-36 will be used to measure the pre-post quality of life of the participants and it's a valid and reliable tool used in majority of researches to measure the quality of life.
Menstrual Symptom Questionnaire
时间窗: Changes from 8th week to 12th week
The Menstrual Symptom Questionnaire, a psychometric test, underwent a correlational analysis to determine test-retest reliability. All the items had reliability coefficients equal to or greater than 0.648, and the average coefficient based on Z-score transformation 0.78. It will be used to measure the severity of dysmenorrhea symptoms.
次要结局
- Self-Structured 20-items Academic Performance questionnaire(Changes from 8th week to 12th week)