The effect of acupressure on severity of depression in hemodialysis patients referred to hemodialysis units in hospitals of Isfahan in 2012
试验速览
- 阶段
- 未知
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 96
研究概览
简要总结
Abstract
Background and objectives: Depression is the most common mental health problem in hemodialysis patients that can have a negative impact on patients' quality of life. This study aimed to determine the effect of acupressure on severity of depression in hemodialysis patients.
Methods: This study is a randomized clinical trial. Ninety-six hemodialysis patients in hemodialysis wards of Noor, Shariati, and Al-Zahra Hospitals were selected by convenient sampling method and randomly divided into three groups (32 patients) of intervention, placebo, and control groups. Data collection tools included a demographic questionnaire and Beck Depression Scale. Acupressure in the intervention and placebo groups was performed over 4 consecutive weeks, 3 times a week, each session lasting 20 minutes during the first 2 hours of dialysis at 6 acupressure points; with this difference that in the placebo group intervention was performed with one centimeter distance away from the true points. The control group received usual care. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, inferential (ANCOVA and LSD) and SPSS software version 11.5 was used.
Results: Analysis of covariance showed a significant difference in the mean score of depression’s severity in the intervention group (P=0.001), but no significant difference in the mean score of depression’s severity in placebo and control groups (P=0.22).
Conclusion: This study showed that acupressure reduced the severity of depression in hemodialysis patients and the use of this drug-free approach is suggested to hemodialysis nurses.
Keywords: acupre
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 years 至 80 years（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •age older than 18 years old; diagnosis of ERSD; undergoing
- •hemodialysis at least for 3 months; the patients with chief complaine of fatigue and having fatigue score =5 based on fatigue severity visual analogue scale; lack of any wound or fracture; being in complete psychological and mental health to attend the study and fill the questionnaire, and not having undergone complementary medicine treatment in the past 3 months of the study. Exclusion criteria: patient’s absence for two sessions of acupressure
- •intervention and lack of interest to continue the study.
排除标准
- 未提供