Constipation Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Randomised Controlled Trial of Self-administered Acupressure in Adult Psychiatric Patients With Constipation
This study is to evaluate the effects of self-administered acupressure therapy for
psychiatric in-patients with constipation
Two main research questions include:
1. What are the effects of the standardized self-administered acupressure program on
reducing those adult psychiatric patients' symptoms of constipation?
2. What are the psychiatric patients' (participants') perceived benefits and limitations
of self-administered acupressure on management of their constipation?
In this study, the participants who met the study criteria and completed the baseline
measurement would be randomly assigned into either the self-administered acupressure
program, or a sham control group who receive a placebo, non-acupoint pressure. The null
hypotheses of this study are:
1. There is no significant difference between the acupressure and sham group immediately
and/or two weeks after the completion of intervention on patients' symptom severity of
constipation; and
2. There is no significant difference between the acupressure and sham group on patients'
perceived quality of life at immediately and two weeks after treatment completion.
Main outcomes of this study include the Constipation Assessment Scale (CAS), Patient Assessment Constipation Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAC-QoL), and the socio-demographic and clinical data collected by a trained assessor who was blind to the intervention assignment of the participants. These data would be measured at recruitment (baseline) and immediately (Post-test 1) and two weeks (Post-test 2) after completion of the 10-day intervention. Qualitative focus group interview data would be collected after Post-test 2 . ;
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment
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