Valiee Sina, Bassampour Shiva Sadat, Nasrabadi Alireza Nikbakht, Pouresmaeil Zahra, Mehran Abbas
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
J Perianesth Nurs. 2012 Aug;27(4):259-66. doi: 10.1016/j.jopan.2012.05.003.
Preoperative anxiety, as an emotional reaction, is common among patients undergoing surgery. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of acupressure on preoperative anxiety before abdominal surgery. The 70 subjects of this clinical trial were randomly assigned into the acupressure group (n=35), which received acupressure at the true points, or the placebo group (n=35), which received acupressure at sham (false) points. Preoperative anxiety and vital signs before and after the intervention were measured in both groups. The findings demonstrated a reduction in the level of preoperative anxiety for both groups (P<.001). Furthermore, they showed a statistically significant difference between the mean of vital signs before and after the intervention in the acupressure group (P<.001) and only statistically significant results for cardiovascular (P=.016) and respiratory rates (P=.007) in the placebo group. Overall, findings revealed that acupressure at true points (third eye and Shen men) can reduce higher preoperative anxiety of patients before abdominal surgery and that it has had a more clinically beneficial effect than sham points.
术前焦虑作为一种情绪反应，在接受手术的患者中很常见。本研究的目的是探讨穴位按压对腹部手术前患者术前焦虑的影响。这项临床试验的70名受试者被随机分为穴位按压组（n = 35），接受真穴穴位按压，或安慰剂组（n = 35），接受假穴穴位按压。两组均测量了干预前后的术前焦虑和生命体征。结果显示两组术前焦虑水平均有所降低（P <.001）。此外，穴位按压组干预前后生命体征平均值之间存在统计学显著差异（P <.001），而安慰剂组仅心血管（P =.016）和呼吸频率（P =.007）有统计学显著结果。总体而言，研究结果表明真穴（印堂穴和神门穴）穴位按压可降低腹部手术前患者较高的术前焦虑，且比假穴具有更显著的临床有益效果。
