The effects of psychological counseling and acupressure based on couple therapy procedure for alleviation of vomiting and nausea in pregnant women in Iran country

Sahar Saadatnia; Azita Tiznobaik; Amir Saber

doi:10.1515/jcim-2020-0308

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The effects of psychological counseling and acupressure based on couple therapy procedure for alleviation of vomiting and nausea in pregnant women in Iran country

Sahar Saadatnia , Azita Tiznobaik and Amir Saber

Published/Copyright: May 7, 2021

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From the journal Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Volume 19 Issue 2

Abstract

Objectives

Nausea and vomiting have psychological negative effects on some pregnant women during gestation. Different strategies have been used for the treatment of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, such as acupressure and psychological interventions. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of psychological counseling and acupressure based on couple therapy procedures on vomiting and nausea in pregnant women in Iran.

Methods

Two hundred and eight women were divided into four groups (n=52): 1) they did not any intervention (control group), 2) they received the psychological intervention, 3) they received acupressure intervention, and 4) they received a combination of psychological + acupressure interventions. To investigate the effects of interventions on nausea and vomiting, the Rhodes index of nausea, vomiting and retching were used. The counseling period has lasted for 4 weeks. The pressure intervention on the site was conducted in clockwise form for 1 min and anticlockwise form for another 1 min.

Results

Groups did not have a significant difference for abortion and income (p>0.05). The effects of counseling, and acupressure interventions on severity and period of vomiting and nausea were not significant (p>0.05), but the intervention based on counseling and acupressure decreased severity of vomiting and nausea (p<0.05).

Conclusions

The intervention based on counseling and acupressure could not reduce nausea and vomiting during the gestation, but the intervention based on a combination of both decreased nausea and vomiting. It can be suggested to apply an intervention based on a combination of counseling and acupressure in short-time period for decreasing nausea and vomiting in women during pregnancy.

Keywords: acupressure; Iran; nausea; psychological counseling; vomiting

Corresponding author: Sahar Saadatnia, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran, E-mail: Saharsaadatnia@Gmail.Com

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge Prof. Dr. Ali Olfati (A.Olfati65@Gmail.Com, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0620-4138) for all efforts to improve the written language of the paper and the Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran for all efforts.

Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
Ethical approval: All the used procedures were approved by the Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences (Hamadan, Iran) and were in agreement with the Ethical Standards for Human Experimentation established by the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, revised in 1983.

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Received: 2020-08-31

Accepted: 2021-02-17

Published Online: 2021-05-07

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