Ear acupressure effect on anxiety
- Conditions
- Anxiety.Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Registration Number
- IRCT2017043033717N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for research of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Inclusion criteria include: Patient's consent to participate in this study; Have minimum level of literacy; Haven’t Problems with speech, hearing or mental barrier to communicate with the investigator; Age over 18 years; Not being pregnant or lactating; Do colposcopy for the first time; Lack of addiction to drugs and alcohol, psychological and severe medical disease; Without history of auriculotherapy treatment in the last 6 month; Absence of wound or lesion at the ears; Having vital signs within normal limits; Absence of unusual sensitivity in touch ear; Having Stressful accident in the last 3 months. Exclusion criteria are: Using certain drug; Unwillingness to continue cooperation; creating stressful events during the study; Itching or inflammation and infection and removing seed more than 24?h in the intervention group Seeds.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety. Timepoint: Before intervention: 3day before colposcopy and 40 minut before colposcopy and after intervention:immediately before colposcopy. Method of measurement: Eshpilberger Questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain. Timepoint: Immediately after colposcopy. Method of measurement: Pain visual analog scale.;Estress. Timepoint: In 4 times: 3day before colposcopy, 40 minut before colposcopy, immediately before colposcopy and immediately after colposcopy. Method of measurement: Estress visual analoge scale.;Attitude to colposcopy. Timepoint: 40 minute before cplposcopy. Method of measurement: Question.