Acupressure and Fistula Needle Insert Pain Management

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

131 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-01

Study Completion Date

2023-07-01

Brief Summary

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Introduction: This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of acupressure application on Hegu (LI4) point on the severity of acute pain caused by fistula needle in patients with brescia-cimino, snuff-box and antecubital fistula.

Methods: This study was randomized control study which was conducted with 66 intervention and 65 control participants. The participants in the intervention group were divided into 3 groups according to the fistula area. Data were collected using Descriptive Information Form and pain scale.

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Detailed Description

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This study is determined that finger acupuncture at L14 point reduces the severity of pain felt by the patient during fistula needle insertion. Acute pain during puncture of arteriovenous fistula is a common problem in hemodialysis patients. Moreover, patients experience this acute pain three times a week. Accordingly, acupressure applied to the L4 acupuncture point can be considered as an effective, simple and low-cost non-pharmacological method to reduce acute pain during needle insertion in patients. Since this application is non-invasive and does not carry the risk of complications, it can be taught to patients and/or nurses to contribute to the management of acute pain. In addition, in this article, we examined the effect of acupressure applied only to the LI4 acupuncture point on pain intensity during fistula needle insertion, therefore, we suggest designing different studies with different acupuncture points (effective in reducing pain).

Conditions

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Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 5 (Disorder)

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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experimental group

Intervention group 1 consisted of patients with brescia-cimino fistula Intervention group 2 consisted of patients with snuff-box fistula Intervention group 3 consisted of patients with antecubital fistula.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Acupreesure applied

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Acupressure was applied to the LI4 acupuncture point for 3 minutes by the researcher for the intervention group

Control Group

Control group 1 consisted of patients with brescia-cimino fistula Control group 2 consisted of patients with snuff-box fistula Control group 3 consisted of patients with antecubital fistula.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Acupreesure applied

Acupressure was applied to the LI4 acupuncture point for 3 minutes by the researcher for the intervention group

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

18 years or older have brescia-cimino, snuff-box or antecubital fistula speak Turkish have hemodialysis(HD) treatment three times a week have not used analgesics in the last 6 hours had no pain who volunteered to participate in the study.

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes