Effect of Acupressure Mat, Premenstrual Symptoms
Conditions
Brief summary
Purpose of the study: To examine the effect of acupressure mat on perceived stress, sleep quality and premenstrual symptoms in students with premenstrual syndrome. Hypotheses of the study; In the post-test and follow-up test between students who were applied acupressure mat and those who were applied plain mat; H10: There is no difference in terms of severity of premenstrual symptoms. H20: There is no difference in terms of perceived stress. H30: There is no difference in terms of sleep quality.
Interventions
OTHERAcupresure mat
The Premenstrual Syndrome Scale will be applied and the scale results will be evaluated. Participants who score 132 and above on the scale will be considered to be experiencing PMS. The intervention will be made in the second phase of the study.This practice will continue for three menstrual cycles.
OTHERBasic mat
The Premenstrual Syndrome Scale will be applied and the scale results will be evaluated. Participants who score 132 and above on the scale will be considered to be experiencing PMS. The intervention will be made in the second phase of the study.Participants in this group will also be sent a reminder message similar to the intervention group. This practice will continue for three menstrual cycles.
Sponsors
Gulhane School of Medicine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Using medication and/or non-medical methods to cope with PMS * Having any gynecological disease (abnormal uterine bleeding, myoma, ovarian cyst, etc.) * Using contraceptive medication.
Exclusion criteria
* Participants wanting to withdraw from the study at any stage of the study * Participants not complying with the research plan * Diagnosed with a psychiatric or gynecological disease during the study * Participants starting to receive additional treatment for PMS during the study period
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Premenstrual Syndrome Symptom Scale | just before the application starts (pre-test), 12 weeks after the application starts (after the application ends/post-test) and 16 weeks later (follow-up test). | It was developed by Gençdoğan (2006) to measure the severity of premenstrual symptoms. The scale consists of 44 questions that measure the severity of premenstrual symptoms based on DSM-III and DSM-IV-R. It is a five-point Likert-type scale. In the scoring of the scale, the option Never is given 1 point, the option Very little is given 2 points, and the option Sometimes is given 3 points. |
| Perceived Stress Scale | just before the application starts (pre-test), 12 weeks after the application starts (after the application ends/post-test) and 16 weeks later (follow-up test). | The scale was developed by Cohen et al. in 1983 to measure the stress a person perceives in a given situation and was adapted to Turkish by Eskin et al. (2013). The 5-point Likert-type scale (Never (0)-Very often (4)) contains a total of 14 items. 7 items with positive expressions are scored in reverse. The minimum score from 0 to a maximum of 56 points can be obtained from the scale. A high score indicates that the person is highly stressed. |
| Visual Analog Scale (VAS) Sleep Quality | just before the application starts (pre-test), 12 weeks after the application starts (after the application ends/post-test) and 16 weeks later (follow-up test). | Students will be asked to evaluate their sleep quality with the Visual Analog Scale. VAS-sleep quality is a 10 cm long tool. My sleep quality is very poor is written on the left end of the scale and My sleep quality is very good is written on the right. A score of 10 from the scale indicates that sleep quality is high, while a score of 0 indicates that sleep quality is very poor. |
Outcome results
None listed