The Effect of Acupressure on Menopausal Symptoms

Menopause Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Acupressure on Menopausal Symptoms: A Randomized, Sham Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06016491
• Other study ID #: Mersin Univers
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 5, 2021
• Est. completion date: March 21, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: Mersin University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled and single-blind study planned to determine the effect of acupressure application on menopausal symptoms. The hypothesis of the study is that acupressure reduces women's menopausal symptoms.

Description:

Menopause is a physiological process during which most women have difficulties and face many problems. Acupressure can be taught and used safely as an effective method to manage the symptoms that women experience during menopause. This study aims to determine the effect of acupressure on menopausal symptoms. The study has a prospective, randomized, sham-controlled, single-blind design. The research was conducted with 81 women (acupressure n=40, sham acupressure n=41) attending the "Menopause School" in a public hospital in Türkiye between July 05, 2021 and August 02, 2021. Both groups received acupressure application thrice a week for four weeks, 12 sessions in total. The data was obtained using a personal information form and a Menopause Rating Scale.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 81
• Est. completion date: March 21, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: August 2, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Able to speak and understand Turkish
• No psychiatric illness
• Natural menopause
• Not on hormone replacement therapy
• Women who volunteered to participate in the study and did not receive any integrated therapy were included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who have undergone menopause with the surgical method
• For lower extremity vascular disease, fracture, sprain or injury, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, thyroid disease, etc. with a diagnosis
• Women who received any integrative therapy were not included in the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acupressure
• Menopause

Intervention

Behavioral:
• acupressure
Depending on the preparation and compression time on each point, an average of 10 minutes was applied to each woman, and then the person were asked to apply it to themselves. After making sure that the women learned, they were asked to apply acupressure on their own. They applied a total of 12 sessions, three times a week for a total of four weeks.
• Sham acupressure
Compression was applied on the bone region where the meridians did not pass, parallel to the KD1 and SP6 points (approximately 1-1.5 cm away). Similar to the acupressure group, the sham group was treated with symmetrical extremities and for similar durati

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Mersin University	Mersin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mersin University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Menopause Rating Scale (MRS)	Menopause symptom rating scale was used to evaluate menopausal symptoms. The Turkish reliability and validity study was conducted by Can (2005). The scale consists of 11 items and 3 sub-dimensions. For each item, there are "0=None", "1=Mild", "2=Moderate", "3=Severe" and "4=Very Severe" options. Sub-dimensions of the scale; somatic complaints (items 1,2,3 and 11), psychological complaints (items 4,5,6 and 7), and urogenital complaints (items 8,9 and 10). The total score of the scale ranges from 0 to 44. The somatic complaints sub-dimension is scored between 0-16, the psychological complaints sub-dimension 0-16, and the urogenital complaints sub-dimension 0-12. An increase in the total score obtained from the scale indicates that the severity of the complaints increases and the quality of life is negatively affected.	Change from before implementation, 0th week and 4th week of practice