NCT01582724

Effectiveness of Additional Self-care Acupressure for Women With Menstrual Pain Compared to Usual Care Alone

Randomized Pragmatic Trial for Women With Menstrual Pain Comparing Additional Self-care Acupressure to Usual Care Alone

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of additional self-care acupressure in women with menstrual pain compared to usual care alone.

Detailed description

Menstrual pain is a common problem in young women and one of the the main reasons of short term absence from school or work. There is some evidence that acupuncture and acupressure might be successful in treating of menstrual pain. Compared with acupuncture, acupressure offers the possibility for women with menstrual pain to do self-care treatment at home. However, studies have been small and self-care acupressure had been only investigated in one study from Taiwan.

Conditions

• Menstrual Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Self-care acupressure at three predefined points	Self-care acupressure, one minute for each point, starting 5 days before menstruation, once up to twice daily; when pain is present: twice daily up to five times

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2012-04-23
• Last updated: 2015-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany