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The Efficacy of Acupressure on Sleep Quality in Menopausal Women

NCT01904578 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2013-07-23

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Summary

Sleep disorder is a common problem in menopausal women and the decrease in the sleep leads to poor daily activity. Traditional Chinese acupressure is a noninvasive, effective and safe technique that can be easily taught to menopausal women so that they apply it as a self-care method and a manager of sleep disruption. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acupressure on sleep quality of postmenopausal women.This double blind randomized clinical trial was performed on 120 qualified menopausal women at the age of 41-65 years; and sleep quality was measured with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI ).Participants were randomly assigned to an acupressure group, a sham acupressure group and a control group by two time randomized method (systematic and simple randomized). These interventions were carried out for 4 consecutive weeks. Participants in acupressure group and sham acupressure group learned to carry out acupressure technique as a self care at home with the simultaneous massage techniques that were to be performed 2 hours before sleep, whereas only conversation was used in the control group. The statistical software package for social science (SPSS) Version 17 was used for data analysis.

Conditions

  • Poor Quality Sleep

Interventions

OTHER

true accupressure

Four acupoints were chosen for subjects in the acupressure group. They were Shenmen on the wrist crease, Sanyinjiao point (SP6) on both feet, Fengchi on the hairline of the back neck (occipital area)and Yintang, at the top of the nose on the center line between the ends of the eyebrows.

OTHER

sham acupressure

Non-acupoints, which were 1 to 3 traditional Chinese unit of length (CUN) away from true acupoints, were used in sham acupressure group.These points were out of the route of energy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
41 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-02-28
Primary Completion
2011-02-28
Completion
2011-02-28

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