A Systematic Review of Acupressure for the Application on Nursing Practice.
2006
Hochschulschrift
Zugriff:
94
The purpose of this study was to search articles with clinical control trials (CCT) or randomize control trials (RCT) that involved acupressure treatment, and review their research quality and caring effects. After concluding and integrating, the application of acupressure including suitable objects/symptoms was submitted and applying acupressure to nursing practice was suggested. Data were collected from 1994 to December 2005. Literature published in ‘MEDLINE’, ‘CJN’, ‘Chinese Journal and Thesis Index’, and ‘Taiwan Thesis Net for Doctor and Master’ were searched by inputting keywords of ‘acupressure.’ As a result, 68 articles about acupressure were found to include in the current study. These articles were sorted and analyzed by qualitative systematic review, and inspected their researching method quality and caring effects. Finally, the acupressure application in nursing practice, including suitable objects/symptoms and operation techniques were raised. The results showed as followed 1. From the primary authors and description about acupressure executing places in the above 68 articles, it is known that nursing staff get the most chances to provide and conduct acupressure caring. 2. The effects of acupressure leaded to the positive results in these 68 articles. 3. There are 32 articles left after eliminating articles with insufficient researching quality, miscellaneous in caring scope, or only 1 score by Jadad Score evaluation from these 68 articles. Among the 32 articles, acupressure techniques using in the following 8 symptoms were recommended in this study: i) nausea and vomiting, ii) primary dysmenorrheal, iii) labor pain, iv) fatigued and depression, v) improving the quality of sleep, vi) anxiety, vii) Respiratory, and viii) increased gastrointestinal motility. 4. Acupressure techniques including: Massage could be proceeded in circular knead, vertical press, or alternative way with moderate, steady, uniform and tender strength. From the beginning of acupressure, the strength should be mild and gradually added to 3 - 5 kg varying depend on objects’ age, sex, and skin thickness. It is able to adjust the strength of massage to make the objects comfortable by using durable strength and frequently evaluating if the objects had feelings of ‘chi’ of ache, numbness, bloat, heaviness, warm, and electrical transmission. It is the principles to adjust the strength of massage. It is suggested 3-5 minutes for each acupressure point, and 10-15 minutes for whole massage process including relaxation and consideration of acupressure points before massage. The result of this study was helpful for clinical nursing staff and student nurses to learn acupressure as well as to develop acupressure standard operation process, due to provide suitable subjects/ symptoms information of operation technique. Besides, it also provided future research direction and design.
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A Systematic Review of Acupressure for the Application on Nursing Practice.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ma, Hui-Wen ; 馬惠文 |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2006 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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