The Impact of Different Acupressure Procedures Performed on the Hand During Labor on Endorphin Levels and Labor Pain Perception: A Randomised Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 140
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- endorphin levels
研究概览
简要总结
This study was performed to determine the impact of different acupressure procedures, performed on women's hands during labor, on endorphin levels and labor pain perception.
The sample consisted of 140 pregnant women. The study was conducted with three experimental groups and one control group, each including 35 pregnant women. Conventional acupressure and warm and cold acupressure procedures were performed on the Large Intestinal 4 energy meridian zone acupressure point of the experimental group. No procedures were performed on the women in the control group. Data were collected using a "Personal Information Form", "Labor Intervention Follow-up Form", "Visual Analog Scale" and "Verbal Category Scale".
The comparison between the experimental and control groups indicated that the conventional acupressure procedure was effective in reducing labor pain and that the warm acupressure procedure increased endorphin levels.
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
- None
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
endorphin levels
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 1month
physiological parameter
labor pain
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 1month
pain scale
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Serap ÖZTÜRK ALTINAYAK
PhD, Academician
Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University