The Effect of Acupressure (GB30) on Ventrogluteal Intramuscular Injection Pain

NCT ID: NCT03553901

Last Updated: 2018-06-13

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

72 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-09-01

Study Completion Date

2017-08-01

Brief Summary

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Acupressure is an ancient manual therapy which fingers are used to press key points on the body. These points are the same with acupuncture points but in contrast to acupuncture, acupressure uses gentle but firm pressure with fingers and hands. The purpose of this study is to investigate effect of acupressure onto GB30 poin for ventrogluteal intramuscular injection pain.The study was designed as a prospective, single-blind, crossover study. The study included 72 volunteer students attending Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Acute Pain Injection Needle Phobia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Acupressure

Acupressure is applied before injection

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Acupressure

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Acupressure was performed before the injection onto GB30 point

Control group

acupressure is not applied before injection

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Acupressure

Acupressure was performed before the injection onto GB30 point

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Body Mass Index (BMI) of 18.5 to 29.9kg/m2
* Voluntariness

Exclusion Criteria

* history of IM injection within 2 weeks
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

25 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Gökhan inangil

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Sultan Abdulhamid Han

References

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Suhrabi Z, Taghinejad H. Effect of acupressure (UB32) on pain intensity in intramuscular injections. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2014 Jan;19(1):24-7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24554956 (View on PubMed)

Hosseinabadi R, Biranvand S, Pournia Y, Anbari K. The Effect of Acupressure on Pain and Anxiety Caused by Venipuncture. J Infus Nurs. 2015 Nov-Dec;38(6):397-405. doi: 10.1097/NAN.0000000000000065.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26536327 (View on PubMed)

Chung JW, Ng WM, Wong TK. An experimental study on the use of manual pressure to reduce pain in intramuscular injections. J Clin Nurs. 2002 Jul;11(4):457-61. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2002.00645.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12100641 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Sultan Abdulhamid

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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