Abstract
Introduction
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common pediatric surgeries in the world and pain control following tonsillectomy is very important.
Objective
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of acupressure on the amount of pain following tonsillectomy in children.
Method
One hundred and forty-four children aged 5–12 years old were assigned into one of three groups: interventions, control and placebo. In the intervention group, acupressure was applied at three acupoints and in the placebo group, sham acupressure was applied. In the control group routine care only was applied.
Results
There was a significant difference between an average of changes in pain score before and after the intervention during the 3 time periods after the tonsillectomy operation in the acupressure group (p = 0.002).
Conclusion
The results showed that acupressure had a positive effect on pain reduction after tonsillectomy in children in the intervention group.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their gratitude to all participants in the study who made this project possible and all patients for their participation in this study. This study was an investigator-initiated trial and had no extra funding.
Author Statement
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Somaye Pouy: Initiation of the study, study design, Data collection, Data analysis, interpretation of the data, and writing the manuscript. Abolfazl Etebarian: Study design, main supervision of the project, and revision of draft papers. Yasaman Yaghobi: Study design, main supervision of the project, and revision of draft papers.
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Conflict of interest: No competing.
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Funding source: Financial interests exist.
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- Original Articles
- Necessity for redesigning premarital counseling classes based on marriage readiness from the perspective of adolescents and specialists: a need assessment based on the Bourich model and quadrant analysis
- Knowledge and attitude of Egyptian parents toward childhood mental disorders
- The association of resilience with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescent students
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