Acupressure and Comfort at Childbirth

Serap Ozturk Altinayak

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Labor

Treatments: Other: Cold Acupressure; Other: Warm Acupressure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05407103

21.05.2020-15

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aims: Non-pharmacological methods employed for management labor pain also help pregnant women to cope with labor pain and increase their childbirth comfort. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of cold and hot acupressure applications, applied to the acupressure point LI4 of primiparous women during labor, on their childbirth comfort.

Methods: This study was designed a randomized controlled experimental study. The sample consisted of 129 healthy pregnant women including 44 pregnant women in the hot acupressure group, 44 pregnant women in the cold acupressure group, and 41 pregnant women in the control group. The "Personal Information Form", the "Labor Monitoring Form", the "Visual Analog Scale", and the "Childbirth Comfort Questionnaire" were all used to gather the data.

Enrollment: 129 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 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)

Exclusion criteria

• Having any of the above criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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129 participants in 3 patient groups

Cold Acupressure Group

Experimental group

Description:

Personal information form (PIF ) , Labor Monitoring Form (LMF), Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and Childbirth Comfort Questionnaire (CCQ) as pre-test during the latent phase before going about the cold acupressure. Next, she applied the cold acupressure pouches on the respective cold group on their LI 4 point for ten minutes, during the active and transition phases. The application was then suspended for one hour, and then repeated three more times. Last, posttest took place. Cold group was given VAS and CCQ during transition phase of dilation between contractions. The researchers then filled out LMF after cold group to monitor how they were feeling.

Treatment:

Other: Cold Acupressure

Warm Acupressure Group

Experimental group

Description:

PIF, LMF, VAS, and CCQ as pre-test during the latent phase before going about the warm acupressure. Next, she applied the warm acupressure pouches on the respective warm groups on their LI 4 point for ten minutes, during the active and transition phases. The application was then suspended for one hour, and then repeated three more times. Last, posttest took place. Warm group was given VAS and CCQ during transition phase of dilation between contractions. The researchers then filled out LMF after warm group to monitor how they were feeling.

Treatment:

Other: Warm Acupressure

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The researcher ran PIF, LMF, VAS, and CCQ as pre-test during the latent phase. No intervention was applied to the control group. Last, posttest took place. Control group was given VAS and CCQ during transition phase of dilation between contractions. The researchers then filled out LMF after warm group to monitor how they were feeling.