The Effect of Acupressure (GB30) on Ventrogluteal Intramuscular Injection Pain

Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Needle Phobia; Injection; Acute Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Acupressure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03553901

Sultan Abdulhamid

Details and patient eligibility

About

Acupressure is an ancient manual therapy which fingers are used to press key points on the body. These points are the same with acupuncture points but in contrast to acupuncture, acupressure uses gentle but firm pressure with fingers and hands. The purpose of this study is to investigate effect of acupressure onto GB30 poin for ventrogluteal intramuscular injection pain.The study was designed as a prospective, single-blind, crossover study. The study included 72 volunteer students attending Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Body Mass Index (BMI) of 18.5 to 29.9kg/m2
• Voluntariness

Exclusion criteria

• history of IM injection within 2 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Acupressure

Experimental group

Description:

Acupressure is applied before injection

Treatment:

Procedure: Acupressure

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

acupressure is not applied before injection