Purpose:The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of auricular acupressure on pruritus and fatigue in hemodialysis patients. Methods: The study design was a randomized control group pre-post test. Initially, forty-four patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups. There was a loss of three participants assigned to the treatment group. The period of data collection was from December 2014 to March 2015. Both groups completed a pre-test. The treatment group received auricular acupressure once a week for ten weeks. Data were collected from the treatment group at two time periods: five weeks and ten weeks following initiation of the treatment protocol. Data were collected from the control group at week 5 and week 10. Data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 program, specifically with the independent t-test and the Repeated Measures of ANOVA. Results: Auricular acupressure was effective in reducing pruritus (F=13.93, p<.001) and fatigue (F=18.33, p<.001). Conclusion: Auricular acupressure is a non-invasive simple method that can be used for the relief of symptoms reported by hemodialysis patients. This treatment modality could be used in several clinical areas. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Purpose:The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of pain management education on knowledge, concern, and attitude about pain management for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in outpatient settings. Methods: This study used a nonequivalent control group pre-post test design. Data collection was conducted from June to September 2012. The participants of this study were 56 patients (Experimental group; 28, Control group; 28) at one University Hospital in D city. The data were analysed with a SPSS/ WIN program. Results: There was a significant difference on knowledge about pain management (t = 2.139, p = .037), but there were no difference on concern (t = -1.355, p = .181) and attitude (F = 3.276, p = .076) about pain management between experimental group and control group. Conclusion: The pain management education had positive effects on knowledge about pain management for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in outpatient settings. Therefore, to validate the effectiveness of pain management education, customized program and further research should be considered focusing on demographic and disease-specific characteristics.
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