Mobile Apps Enhancing Acupressure Therapy Compliance and Efficacy for Asthenopia

University of Indonesia (UI)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Asthenopia

Treatments: Procedure: Acupressure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06418191

24-03-0424

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a mobile application works to improve adherence to acupressure therapy in asthenopia. It will also learn about the efficacy of acupressure as a therapy for asthenopia. The main questions it aims to answer are:

-Does a mobile application have a role to improve therapy compliance and efficacy of self-guided acupressure in asthenopia?

Researchers will compare users of a mobile app to non-users of a mobile app to see if a mobile app works to improve adherence to acupressure therapy in asthenopia

Participants will:

• Do acupressure 2 times every day for 4 weeks
• Filling in the absence link has been after doing acupressure every day
• Fill out the link regarding the condition of asthenopia once per week

Full description

This is a clinical trial study to evaluate the role of a mobile application in therapy compliance and acupressure efficacy in asthenopia sufferers. Participants are 60 males/females aged 18-64 years. They will be divided into 2 groups: (1) Acupressure mobile app users and (2) Non-acupressure mobile app users. Acupressure is scheduled 2 times every day for 4 weeks. Therapy compliance will be assessed from the absence link that participants fill out every day, while therapy efficacy will be assessed once per week for 4 weeks.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Using a smartphone with the Android platform.
• Work or use digital gadgets for at least 4 hours a day.
• Suffering from asthenopia as indicated by a CVS-Q score ≥ 6.
• Can be contacted with the WhatsApp application.
• Willing to take part in this research until completion and agree to informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• There are tumors, wounds or skin infections in the eye area.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Mobile app users

Experimental group

Description:

Mobile application users will be notified twice per day to perform acupressure. Instructions for performing acupressure are in the mobile app

Treatment:

Procedure: Acupressure

Not a mobile app user

Active Comparator group

Description:

Non-users of the mobile application will be given an explanation of how to perform acupressure at the start of the study and will not be reminded to perform acupressure therapy.

Treatment:

Procedure: Acupressure