NCT05938660

Effects of Acupressure at Sanyinjiao Point on Primary Dysmenorrhea Among University Students.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Asia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this non-invasive interventional study is to explore the university students' experience of living with primary dysmenorrhea and evaluate the effect of acupuncture at the Sanyinjiao point on their physiological discomfort. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is there any difference in pain before and after the intervention of the Sanyinjiao point acupressure for dysmenorrhea among female college students? * Is there any difference in the average number of Menstrual Distress Questionnaire scale before and after Sanyinjiao acupressure in female college students with dysmenorrhea? Participants will be acupressure at Sanyinjiao point triple times during the study.

Detailed description

This study will employ a quasi-experimental research design, using pre- and post-intervention surveys in intervention. In the universities of central Taiwan as a place to collect cases. Target 50 university students with primary dysmenorrhea will be recruited by using a purposive sampling. After taking the informed consent and basic information of the study participants, the observation will be measured before and after the intervention of the Sanyinjiao point acupuncture, which were performed during two consecutive menstrual cycles (eight days per cycles). The data collection will be obtained by demographic questionnaire, the Visual Pain Scale (VAS) and the Menstrual Physiological Infrequency Table (MDQ). Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation (SD), frequency, mean difference), Chi-square test and ANOVA statistical testswere used for data analysis.

Conditions

• Primary Dysmenorrhea
• Acupuncture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	acupressure at Sanyinjiao point	When pressing Sanyinjiao point, the subject should be in a comfortable sitting position. Press the acupoints with the thumb until the subject feels soreness, then press and knead in a circle according to the strength acceptable to the subject. Press and knead once a second, and rest for 1 second every 5 seconds are one cycle, the speed is 10 cycles/minute, and it lasts for five minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-22
• Primary completion: 2023-07-01
• Completion: 2023-08-01
• First posted: 2023-07-10
• Last updated: 2023-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan