Use of Acupressing in Reproductive Medicine (ambauric)

Hopital Foch

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fertility Disorders; Anxiety State

Treatments: Other: Acupressing; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05815121

2021_0165

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this preliminary study is therefore to assess the feasibility, safety and reduction of perioperative anxiety thanks to acupressing. In addition, patients undergoing oocyte retrieval often present postoperatively with nausea, abdominal pain and discomfort. Acupuncture could also help these patients.

Full description

Infertility can lead to the realization of follicular puncture or oocytes in order to obtain an embryo for medically assisted procreation. It is a long treatment for the couples concerned and this intervention, relatively simple in young patients, is associated with a very high level of anxiety. According to studies, the incidence of preoperative anxiety ranges from 11% to 80% in adult patients. In patients undergoing outpatient surgery, anxiolytics are not administered before anesthesia in outpatient surgery, as this would risk altering their "fitness for the street" and preventing their return home. Studies have shown a benefit of acupressing in the treatment of preoperative anxiety. This technique could therefore be an alternative to drug anxiety before surgery. Acupressing could also help these patients.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients over 18 years old
• Scheduled to undergo an oocyte retrieval in outpatient surgery
• Anxiety score ≥ 3 when they arrived in the outpatient unit
• Subject is willing and able to provide informed consent
• Covered by a national healthcare insurance

Non-Inclusion Criteria:

• Ear's pavilion infection
• Wrist infection
• Previous treatment with auriculotherapy or acupuncture
• With a planned intervention that does not allow the delay of 45 min delay (+/- 15 min) between the acupuncture treatment and the STAI assessment
• Being deprived of liberty or under guardianship

Exclusion criteria

• Patient having recourse to any treatment or method of anxiolysis the morning of the procedure, after having given her consent
• Patient wishing to withdraw from the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Acupressing group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients benefit from one session of acupressing with placement of 4 vaccaria seeds covered with stickers on the ears and 2 on the wrists. They will also be asked to regularly and gently massage the treated points

Treatment:

Other: Acupressing

SHAM group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Patients treated according to the same scheme as the experimental group, but with stickers only on the points, and the points should not be massaged.

Treatment:

Other: Control