Examining the Effect of Acupressure Mat on Perceived Stress, Sleep Quality and Premenstrual Symptoms in Students Experiencing Premenstrual Syndrome: Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 42
- 主要终点
- Premenstrual Syndrome Symptom Scale
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •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.
排除标准
- •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
结局指标
主要结局
Premenstrual Syndrome Symptom Scale
时间窗: 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
时间窗: 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
时间窗: 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.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Sinem Ceylan
Asist. Prof.
Gulhane School of Medicine