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| Title |
Self-administered acupressure for treating adult psychiatric patients with constipation: a randomized controlled trial
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| Published in |
Chinese Medicine, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13020-015-0064-7 |
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| Authors |
Wai Kit Wong, Wai Tong Chien, Wai Ming Lee |
| Abstract |
Constipation has a high prevalence rate (>30 %) in psychiatric patients with psychotropic drugs. Common pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for constipation might have longer-term negative and adverse effects that would outweigh their short-term efficacy in symptom reduction. This randomized controlled trial aims to investigate the effect of self-administered acupressure for the management of constipation, in hospitalized psychiatric patients. Seventy-eight patients were recruited in matched pairs in terms of gender, age and laxative use from five acute psychiatric wards in Hong Kong. Each of these matched pairs of patients was randomly assigned to either a self-administered acupressure (n = 39) or a sham group (n = 39), using computer-generated random numbers. After baseline measurement, the intervention and sham group received the same training in self-administered acupressure and supervised practice once per day for 10 days, except light pressure on non-acupoints was taught to the sham group. The acupoints chosen for acupressure included Zhongwan (RN12), right and left Tianshu (ST25), right and left Quchi (LI11). Participants' symptoms and quality of life regarding constipation were measured at baseline and immediately and 2 weeks after completion of the interventions with constipation assessment scale and patient assessment of constipation quality of life questionnaire, respectively. After 2 weeks follow-up, participants who had received self-administered acupressure indicated significantly greater improvements in both symptom severity (P = 0.0003) and quality of life (P = 0.0004) when compared with the sham group. The psychiatric patients with constipation who practiced self-administered acupressure for 10 days improved their symptom severity and perceived quality of life immediately and 2 weeks after completion of the intervention in comparison with the sham group. The trial was registered with the ClinicalTrials.gov (Reg. No: NCT02187640). |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | 2 | 67% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 11 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 16% |
| Researcher | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 18% |
| Unknown | 17 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 26% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 23% |
| Psychology | 7 | 11% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 21 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 January 2019.
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#7,047,954
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Chinese Medicine
#128
of 660 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#82,043
of 296,418 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Chinese Medicine
#1
of 11 outputs
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