Acupressure and anxiety in women with gestational diabetes
Phase 2
- Conditions
- Anxiety-Post-traumatic stress disorder.F43.0 (Post-traumatic stress disorder) and F41.1 (Generalized anxiety disorder)F43.0, F41
- Registration Number
- IRCT201206246247N8
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
All women aged between 15 and 42 years old, who attended and hospitalized in the Akbarabadi Hospital, the High Risk Obstetrical Unit between August 23, 2011, and October 23, 2011, for treatment of gestational diabetes, who mentioned the feeling of anxiety and no previous experience of acupressure, and signed the written informed consent.
Exclusion criteria: not participating in the trial for any reason, and the subjects in the experimental group who did not feel the heavy and numbness feelings during the intervention (acupressure) at the selective point.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety and its severity. Timepoint: at pre-test (before the intervention) and post-test (at the end of the fourth day of the intervention). Method of measurement: a questionnaire of maternal anxiety and the Visual analogue scale (VAS).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method