NCT05336708

The Effect of Acupressure on Fatigue

The Effect of Acupressure on Fatigue in Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 68 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mersin University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of acupressure on fatigue in nursing students.

Detailed description

In this study, 68 nursing students were randomly assigned to the acupressure and placebo (sham) acupressure groups. In the acupressure group (n=34), compression was applied to the 7th point of the heart meridian (HT7), the 4th point of the large intestine meridian (LI4), the 36th point of the stomach meridian (ST36), and the 6th point of the spleen meridian (SP6). Depending on the preparation and compression time at each point, the session duration of each student lasted an average of 20 minutes. In the sham group (n=34), pressure was applied approximately 1-1.5 cm away from the HT7, LI4, ST36, SP6 points. In the sham group, the acupressure application time lasted for an average of 20 minutes. At the end of the application, after the data collection process was completed, the sham group was taught the correct acupuncture points. Students applied acupressure three times a week for a total of 12 sessions for four weeks. Data were collected before and four weeks after the application in the acupressure and sham acupressure groups.

Conditions

• Interventional

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Acupressure Group	In the acupressure group, acupressure will be applied to the heart meridian 7th point (HT7), large intestine meridian 4th point (LI4), stomach meridian 36th point (ST36) and spleen meridian 6th point (SP6). After pressing each point for a certain period of time, a total of two minutes of rest periods will be applied by the researcher.
OTHER	Sham Acupressure Group	In the sham acupressure group, acupressure will be applied on the bone region where the meridians do not pass, approximately 1-1.5 cm away from the HT7, LI4, ST36, SP6 points. The application process will continue in the same way with acupressure group and the pressure intensity will be less.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-27
• Primary completion: 2021-12-31
• Completion: 2022-01-31
• First posted: 2022-04-20
• Last updated: 2022-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)