NCT02762435

Acupressure in Hospitalized Patients

Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupressure to Improve Patient Satisfaction and Quality of Recovery in Hospitalized Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stony Brook University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

After written informed consent eligible hospitalized patients will be randomized to one of 3 arms (1:1:1:): control, sham, accupressure (3 points on the hand and wrist three times per day). Quality of recovery and other measures of patient satisfaction will be recorded.

Detailed description

After written informed consent eligible hospitalized patients will be randomized to one of 3 arms (1:1:1:): control (no touch), sham (light touch), acupressure (2 minutes moderate pressure each at PC6, LI4, and HT7 three times per day). Quality of recovery using the validated Quality of Recovery (QOR) 15 score and other measures of patient satisfaction (nausea score, pain score) will be recorded at baseline and after their 6 study sessions.

Conditions

• Acupressure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	sham	light touch at established points on hand and wrist
OTHER	control	no contact with the subject
OTHER	acupressure	moderate pressure at established points on hand and wrist

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2016-05-05
• Last updated: 2017-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States