Siavoshi, Mohammad and Vahidisabzevar, Ali and Talebi, Shahrbano and Doroudi, Mahdiyeh and Shahsavan, Yaser and Bordbar, Reza (2017) The effect of acupressure on sleep quality in patients with chronic heart failure. Journal of Biomedicine and Health, 2 (1). pp. 24-31.
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Background: Sleep disorder is one of the most common problems in patients with chronic heart failure. Acupressure is considered as a proposed complementary therapy and has proven effective in a wide range of ailments, including pain relief, arthritis and stress. This study attempts to investigate the effect of acupressure on sleep quality in patients with chronic heart failure. Methods: This is a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study, in which 90 patients with chronic heart failure admitted to the heart ward at 22 Bahman Hospital, Neyshabour, in 2014 were selected via inclusion criteria, and then were randomly divided into three groups of acupressure, pseudo and control. In the acupressure point, massage was performed for three days on the Shen Men point of each of the wrists for 5 minutes, while it was performed in the same way but in 1 to 1.5 cm away from the main point. The control group only received routine care. In this study, data collection tools were a demographic questionnaire and the St Mary's Hospital Sleep Questionnaire (SMHSQ) . Sleep quality was measured in all the three groups at nights. Data was analyzed using SAS software. Results: The results of data analysis showed that the patients were homogenous in terms of demographic information. However, there were significant differences in the sleep quality score between the acupressure and pseudo points groups through five measurement stages (P<0.01), while no significant changes were observed in the control group (P>0.05). Moreover, at the end of the intervention, there was a significant difference in terms of sleep quality between all the three groups (P<0.001). Conclusion: This study suggests that acupressure promotes sleep quality in chronic heart failure patients and therefore, it can be recommended as a non-invasive treatment for sleep disorders of patients.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Saeed Shoja |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2018 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2018 09:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.medsab.ac.ir/id/eprint/42 |
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