Ali Mohammadpour; Mehdi Basiri Moghadam; Arezoo Davariniya Motalgh Ghochan; Seyed Javad Mojtabavi
Volume 24, Issue 5 , September and October 2018, , Pages 327-332
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Background: Pain is common and distressing symptoms that patients experience before appendectomy. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of ear acupressure on severity of pain in appendectomy candidate patients.
Materials and methods: This is a one-blinded randomized control ...
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Background: Pain is common and distressing symptoms that patients experience before appendectomy. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of ear acupressure on severity of pain in appendectomy candidate patients.
Materials and methods: This is a one-blinded randomized control trial study including 72 patients divided in 3 groups who were scheduled to appendectomy surgery in Bidokht hospital inGonabad City. Participants were selected using convenience sampling method and randomly divided into three groups: intervention, placebo and control. All three groups received routine treatment. The intervention patients which received acupressure at the true points (Thalamus) and placebo group which received acupressure at sham (false) points for 15 minutes. The data were analyzed by SPSS software (19 versions) and descriptive and Inferential statistics were used. P-values less than 0.05 were considered significant.
Results: Based on the results of study, applying acupressure at the true point correctly significantly reduce the severity of pain at minute 30 ((p = 0/02) in the intervention groups compare with control and placebo groups.
Conclusion: Acupressure at the thalamus point in ear can decrease severity of pain in appendectomy candidate patients
Ali Mohammadpour; Mehdi Basiri Moghaddam; Narges Saber
Volume 23, Issue 2 , March and April 2016, , Pages 377-385
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Background & Objectives: Coronary artery disease is the most common cardiovascular disease and cause of a lot of deaths worldwide. In patients with this disease, symptom management is performed both pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically. Rhythmic breathing is one of the non-pharmacological ...
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Background & Objectives: Coronary artery disease is the most common cardiovascular disease and cause of a lot of deaths worldwide. In patients with this disease, symptom management is performed both pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically. Rhythmic breathing is one of the non-pharmacological proposed methods. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of rhythmic breathing on the cardiorespiratory parameters in Acute Coronary Syndrome patients admitted at CCU. Methods: In this clinical trial, 80 patients with acute coronary syndrome were randomly divided into two interventional and control groups. The intervention group performed the rhythmic breathing for 20 minutes every 5 minutes once and it took 1 minute, and any intervention was not performed in the control group, but routine medical procedures were similar in both groups. Before and after the intervention, blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and oxygen saturation were recorded. The study instrument consisted of a demographic questionnaire and a data sheet for recording physiologic parameters, and the data were analyzed by using SPSS software. P values less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results:Based on the findings, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in systolic blood pressure (P=0.65), diastolic blood pressure (P=0.53), respiratory rate (P=0.12), the rhythm of respiration (P=0.74), heart rate (P=0.61), the rhythm of the heartbeat (P=0.5) and arterial oxygen saturation (P= 0.67). Conclusion: Despite the lack of significant findings in this study, rhythmic breathing can be conducted in other cardiovascular diseases with a larger sample size, profiting from its potential benefits.
Ali Mohammadpour; Samaneh Najafi; Jahanshir Tavakkolizadeh; Fatemeh Mohammadzadeh
Volume 22, Issue 6 , January and February 2016, , Pages 999-1007
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Background: In pregnancy period, mothers experience many changes psychologically. Self-concept as one of the factors affecting the mental states, in present cares of pregnancy becomes less than attention. Present study was implemented in order to the effect of intervention this model on personal self-concept ...
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Background: In pregnancy period, mothers experience many changes psychologically. Self-concept as one of the factors affecting the mental states, in present cares of pregnancy becomes less than attention. Present study was implemented in order to the effect of intervention this model on personal self-concept in primi gravida women. Materials and Methods: In this randomized controlled field trial, Research Sample consisted of 83 primi gravida women that were selected by simple random sampling and were assigned in groups of intervention (42 persons) and control (41persons) through block permutation method. Intervention group received the educational supportive intervention consisted of training sessions and psychological counseling planned based on model over 4 weeks. For assessing the level of adaptation in personal self-concept mode, a valid and reliable questionnaire was used. Data was analyzed by means of SPSS software and using descriptive statistics and tests of analytic statistics were analyzed. P<0/05 was considered significant. Results: Adaptation scores in personal self-mode in both groups before intervention respectively were 38.26±7.56 and 40.73±8.21 and their comparison had not significant statistically difference while after intervention scores in two groups respectively were 30.69±4.46 and 41.29±8.40 that their comparison showed a significant difference. Conclusion: Using of designed program based on "Roy" model, as an effective and low cost intervention, can increase prim -gravida women's adaptation in self- concept mode. Therefore the implementation of this pattern besides in this period is recommended.