Endorphin at Labor Pain and Acupressure

Labor Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Different Acupressure Procedures Performed on the Hand During Labor on Endorphin Levels and Labor Pain Perception: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04367038
• Other study ID #: 25.09.2018-04/2
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 25, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 8, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: April 2020
• Source: Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was performed to determine the impact of different acupressure procedures, performed on women's hands during labor, on endorphin levels and labor pain perception.

The sample consisted of 140 pregnant women. The study was conducted with three experimental groups and one control group, each including 35 pregnant women. Conventional acupressure and warm and cold acupressure procedures were performed on the Large Intestinal 4 energy meridian zone acupressure point of the experimental group. No procedures were performed on the women in the control group. Data were collected using a "Personal Information Form", "Labor Intervention Follow-up Form", "Visual Analog Scale" and "Verbal Category Scale".

The comparison between the experimental and control groups indicated that the conventional acupressure procedure was effective in reducing labor pain and that the warm acupressure procedure increased endorphin levels.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 140
• Est. completion date: January 8, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: October 31, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a primipara

• Having intact membranes

• No skin diseases (such as urticaria...),

• No use of narcotic drugs

• Having a term pregnancy

• Having a single fetus at vertex position

• Planning to have vaginal delivery

• Having contractions and ongoing regular augmentation

• Having recent augmentation starting periods

• Being in the latent phase (0-3 cm dilatation)

• Having no history of high-risk pregnancy

• Not using analgesic drugs to reduce pain during delivery

• Having no systemic and neurologic diseases

• Having no contraction anomaly (hypotonic or hypertonic contractions)

Exclusion Criteria:

Having any of the above criteria.

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Labor Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Warm Acupressure, Cold Acupressure , Conventional Acupressure
Acupressure is non-invasive, safe and effective.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Health Research and Training Hospital of Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University	Tokat

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Serap ÖZTÜRK ALTINAYAK

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	labor pain	pain scale	through study completion, an average of 1month
Primary	endorphin levels	physiological parameter	through study completion, an average of 1month