The Effect of Acupressure on Menopausal Symptoms

NCT ID: NCT06016491

Last Updated: 2023-08-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 81 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-07-05
• Study Completion Date: 2022-03-21

Brief Summary

This is a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled and single-blind study planned to determine the effect of acupressure application on menopausal symptoms.

The hypothesis of the study is that acupressure reduces women's menopausal symptoms.

Detailed Description

Menopause is a physiological process during which most women have difficulties and face many problems. Acupressure can be taught and used safely as an effective method to manage the symptoms that women experience during menopause.

This study aims to determine the effect of acupressure on menopausal symptoms. The study has a prospective, randomized, sham-controlled, single-blind design. The research was conducted with 81 women (acupressure n=40, sham acupressure n=41) attending the "Menopause School" in a public hospital in Türkiye between July 05, 2021 and August 02, 2021. Both groups received acupressure application thrice a week for four weeks, 12 sessions in total. The data was obtained using a personal information form and a Menopause Rating Scale.

Conditions

Menopause; Acupressure

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Acupressure group

Before the acupressure application, the woman to be applied was informed in a quiet room for ease of application, and then she was ensured to be in a comfortable position. Women were taught to practice on a total of two points, the kidney meridian (Yong Quan-KD1) and the spleen meridian (Sanyinjiao-SP6). Since the symmetry of the selected two different points on the other extremity will also be applied, a total of 8 minutes of compression was applied to each point, provided that it was two minutes. Depending on the preparation and compression time on each point, an average of 10 minutes was applied to each patient, and then the patients were asked to apply it to themselves. After making sure that the women learned, they were asked to apply acupressure on their own. They applied a total of 12 sessions, three times a week for a total of four weeks. To remind the session day, information was given by the researcher via short message.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

acupressure

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Depending on the preparation and compression time on each point, an average of 10 minutes was applied to each woman, and then the person were asked to apply it to themselves. After making sure that the women learned, they were asked to apply acupressure on their own. They applied a total of 12 sessions, three times a week for a total of four weeks.

Sham acupressure group

After all the preparations (suitability of sound and environment and information) before the application to the acupressure group were made in the sham group, the sham acupressure points determined parallel to the KD1 and SP6 points (approximately 1-1.5 cm away) were put on the bone area where the meridians do not pass has been applied.

Similar to the acupressure group, the sham acupresuure group was treated with symmetrical extremities and for similar durations.

Group Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR

Sham acupressure

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Compression was applied on the bone region where the meridians did not pass, parallel to the KD1 and SP6 points (approximately 1-1.5 cm away). Similar to the acupressure group, the sham group was treated with symmetrical extremities and for similar durati

Interventions

acupressure

Depending on the preparation and compression time on each point, an average of 10 minutes was applied to each woman, and then the person were asked to apply it to themselves. After making sure that the women learned, they were asked to apply acupressure on their own. They applied a total of 12 sessions, three times a week for a total of four weeks.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Sham acupressure

Compression was applied on the bone region where the meridians did not pass, parallel to the KD1 and SP6 points (approximately 1-1.5 cm away). Similar to the acupressure group, the sham group was treated with symmetrical extremities and for similar durati

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Able to speak and understand Turkish
• No psychiatric illness
• Natural menopause
• Not on hormone replacement therapy
• Women who volunteered to participate in the study and did not receive any integrated therapy were included.

Exclusion Criteria

• Those who have undergone menopause with the surgical method
• For lower extremity vascular disease, fracture, sprain or injury, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, thyroid disease, etc. with a diagnosis
• Women who received any integrative therapy were not included in the study.

• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Mersin University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Melek Yesil Bayulgen

Lecturer (Principal Investigator)

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Mersin University

Mersin, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

Mersin Univers

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id