The effect of acupressure at SP6 point on analgesic taking in women during labor

Parisa Samadi; Minoor Lamyian; Reza Heshmat; Soghrat Faghihzade

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The effect of acupressure at SP6 point on analgesic taking in women during labor

Author(s):

Parisa Samadi¹,

Minoor Lamyian^2,*,

Reza Heshmat³,

Soghrat Faghihzade⁴

1MSc of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Eslamic Azad University Abadan Branch, Abadan, Iran.

2Assistant Professor of Midwifery, Tarbiyat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

3General Physician, Tehran, Iran

4Professor of Biostatistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 12, issue 5; e94223

Published online:Nov 13, 2010

Article type:Research Article

Received:Feb 25, 2010

Accepted:Jul 26, 2010

How to Cite:Parisa SamadiMinoor LamyianReza HeshmatSoghrat FaghihzadeThe effect of acupressure at SP6 point on analgesic taking in women during labor.Zahedan J Res Med Sci.12(5):e94223.

Abstract

Background : According to the potential side effects of analgesics and anaesthetic drugs to control the labour pains, it is possible to replace non-medical method for palliative treatment. The purpose of this research is to assess the effect of acupressure in spleen point 6 (SP6) on the amount of analgesic drug taking during labour.

Materials and Method : We conducted one sided blind randomized clinical trial in 2008. 131 term pregnant women randomly selected and divided into three groups including one experimental group (pressure on SP6:41 persons) and two control groups (SP6 touch: 41 cases and common care: 49 persons). The data has been analyzed by using the descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS-16 software.

Results : Comparing the average amounts of the consumed drug between three groups showed a significant decrease in the experimental group more than the other two control groups ( p =0.006). The average amount of consumed p ethidine in the experimental group showed a significant decrease (p =0.02).

Conclusion : The findings of our study showed that the pressure on SP6 is an effective method to decrease the amount of analgesic consumption in labor specially pethidine.

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