The Impact of Applying Various Forms of Acupressure on Women's Hand During Labor on Their Childbirth Comfort: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 129
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Comfort
研究概览
简要总结
Aims: Non-pharmacological methods employed for management labor pain also help pregnant women to cope with labor pain and increase their childbirth comfort. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of cold and hot acupressure applications, applied to the acupressure point LI4 of primiparous women during labor, on their childbirth comfort.
Methods: This study was designed a randomized controlled experimental study. The sample consisted of 129 healthy pregnant women including 44 pregnant women in the hot acupressure group, 44 pregnant women in the cold acupressure group, and 41 pregnant women in the control group. The "Personal Information Form", the "Labor Monitoring Form", the "Visual Analog Scale", and the "Childbirth Comfort Questionnaire" were all used to gather the data.
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
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 45 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Being a primipara
- •Having intact membranes
- •No skin diseases (such as urticaria...),
- •No use of narcotic drugs
- •Having a term pregnancy
- •Having a single fetus at vertex position
- •Planning to have vaginal delivery
- •Having contractions and ongoing regular augmentation
- •Having recent augmentation starting periods
- •Being in the latent phase (0-3 cm dilatation)
- •Having no history of high-risk pregnancy
- •Not using analgesic drugs to reduce pain during delivery
- •Having no systemic and neurologic diseases
- •Having no contraction anomaly (hypotonic or hypertonic contractions)
排除标准
- •Having any of the above criteria
结局指标
主要结局
Comfort
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 1month
Childbirth Comfort Questionnaire (CCQ); Each item ranks between 1 and 5 points: 1=Strongly disagree, 2=Mostly disagree, 3=Partially agree, 4=Mostly agree, and 5=Completely agree. Thus, the lowest and highest scores are 9 and 45 points, respectively. The higher the score one earns, the more comfortable they are; the lower the score, the exact opposite
次要结局
- Labor pain(through study completion, an average of 1month)
研究者
Serap Ozturk Altinayak
Assistant professor
Ondokuz Mayıs University