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Study aim
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Determining the effect of acupressure on anxiety, pain and quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease referred to the emergency department of Shahid Chamran Hospital in Tehran
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Design
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Clinical trial with control and experimental groups, with parallel groups, one-way blind, randomized, on 56 patients. A simple method will be used for randomization.
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Settings and conduct
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Patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease who will be referred to Shahid Chamran Hospital in Tehran are placed in the experimental and control groups by simple random method. In this plan, patients do not know their group.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria include:
1. Willingness to participate in the study
2. Inflammatory bowel disease
3. No other diseases and obvious intestinal disorders
4. Do not have known autoimmune diseases such as cancer
5. Absence of any wounds, scratches, deformities and numbness in the desired points of acupressure,
6. Be literate,
7. No history of using acupressure,
8. Do not smoke, take drugs or take sedatives and anti-anxiety pills
9. No mental illness, including anxiety disorders
10. No pregnancy
11. No varicose veins, tumors, infectious skin, the possibility of bone fractures and acute abdomen during the study
12. Age between 18 and 60 years
Exclusion criteria include:
1. The patient's unwillingness to continue cooperation
2. No feeling of warmth, heaviness, swelling or numbness when performing acupressure at the desired point for any reason
3. Failure to intervene in a quarter of the designated days
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Intervention groups
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Experimental group: The effect of acupressure (pressure) on the studied variables
Control group: Investigation of the effect of placebo (touch) on the studied variables
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Main outcome variables
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Anxiety
the pain
Quality of Life