Acupressure Mat on Perceived Stress, Sleep Quality and Premenstrual Symptoms

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Premenstrual Symptoms; Effect of Acupressure Mat

• Registration Number: NCT06644365
• Lead Sponsor: Gulhane School of Medicine

Brief Summary

Purpose of the study: To examine the effect of acupressure mat on perceived stress, sleep quality and premenstrual symptoms in students with premenstrual syndrome.

Hypotheses of the study;

In the post-test and follow-up test between students who were applied acupressure mat and those who were applied plain mat;

H10: There is no difference in terms of severity of premenstrual symptoms.

H20: There is no difference in terms of perceived stress.

H30: There is no difference in terms of sleep quality.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Study First Submitted: 2024-10-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-10-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-15
• Study First Posted: 2024-10-16
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-16
• Study Start: 2024-11-15
• Primary Completion: 2024-11-30
• Study Completion: 2025-03-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 42

Inclusion Criteria

• Using medication and/or non-medical methods to cope with PMS
• Having any gynecological disease (abnormal uterine bleeding, myoma, ovarian cyst, etc.)
• Using contraceptive medication.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants wanting to withdraw from the study at any stage of the study
• Participants not complying with the research plan
• Diagnosed with a psychiatric or gynecological disease during the study
• Participants starting to receive additional treatment for PMS during the study period

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Premenstrual Syndrome Symptom Scale	just before the application starts (pre-test), 12 weeks after the application starts (after the application ends/post-test) and 16 weeks later (follow-up test).	It was developed by Gençdoğan (2006) to measure the severity of premenstrual symptoms. The scale consists of 44 questions that measure the severity of premenstrual symptoms based on DSM-III and DSM-IV-R. It is a five-point Likert-type scale. In the scoring of the scale, the option "Never" is given 1 point, the option "Very little" is given 2 points, and the option "Sometimes" is given 3 points.
Perceived Stress Scale	just before the application starts (pre-test), 12 weeks after the application starts (after the application ends/post-test) and 16 weeks later (follow-up test).	The scale was developed by Cohen et al. in 1983 to measure the stress a person perceives in a given situation and was adapted to Turkish by Eskin et al. (2013). The 5-point Likert-type scale (Never (0)-Very often (4)) contains a total of 14 items. 7 items with positive expressions are scored in reverse. The minimum score from 0 to a maximum of 56 points can be obtained from the scale. A high score indicates that the person is highly stressed.
Visual Analog Scale (VAS) Sleep Quality	just before the application starts (pre-test), 12 weeks after the application starts (after the application ends/post-test) and 16 weeks later (follow-up test).	Students will be asked to evaluate their sleep quality with the Visual Analog Scale. VAS-sleep quality is a 10 cm long tool. "My sleep quality is very poor" is written on the left end of the scale and "My sleep quality is very good" is written on the right. A score of 10 from the scale indicates that sleep quality is high, while a score of 0 indicates that sleep quality is very poor.