1. Effectiveness of acupressure therapy on menstrual pain perception among adolescent girls with primary dysmenorrhea
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Sajda Bano, Esther Christina, Rukmanee Malviya, Poonam Sharma, Bharat Singh Gaur, Geeta Sahu, and Piyali Saha
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Research design ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Alternative medicine ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Acupressure ,Test (assessment) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Irregular menstruation ,0302 clinical medicine ,Perception ,Statistical significance ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,Acupressure Therapy ,medicine.symptom ,business ,media_common - Abstract
Acupressure is one of the most popular alternative modality which is been practiced worldwide presently. Activating “The Acupoint Sp6 or San Yin Jiao or Spleen 6” point by pressing and releasing every day as a preventive measure for reducing the problems like pre-menstrual syndrome, dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation. The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of acupressure therapy on menstrual pain perception among adolescent girls with primary dysmenorrhea in Peoples College of Nursing, Bhanpur, Bhopal, M.P. Totally 60 samples were taken by using Purposive sampling technique. The research design selected for present study was one group pre-test post-test design. Result- The pre-test pain score mean was 6.18 and post-test pain score mean was 1.88. The calculated value of ‘t’ was 7.41 which was very much higher than the tabulated ‘p’ value
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- 2016
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