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Study aim
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The efficacy of two factors of acupressure and desirable Azkar on the patients’ anxiety before surgery
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Design
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The study will be randomized controlled clinical trial on 150 people who were included in the study through simple sampling and randomly one of the three groups of acupressure, recommended azkar or control group
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Settings and conduct
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This study is a randomized controlled trial that will be performed to investigate and compare the effectiveness of two methods of acupressure and recommended remembrance on the anxiety of patients undergoing surgery in hospitals in Ferdows
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: not having any special problems in the spot of receiving acupressure, not having any sight disorder that can prevent choosing the proper spot in the standard of anxiety examination, not receiving tranquilizers, painkillers, or drugs effective on anxiety such as Inderal for more than one month.Not having pain, epilepsy, or mental disorder, history of using acupressure, presence of thyroid diseases, addiction to drugs, pregnancy, previous surgery due to malignancy
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Intervention groups
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To apply acupressure, the third eye point (Yintang), which is located between the two eyes, will be pressed for about 10 minutes.
In the desirable Azkar group, the research units will listen to Hamd and Zikr La hool and La qwat ela be llah several times using an audio source.
In the control group, pressure will be applied for 10 minutes on the false point, which has no effect on the patient's sedation.
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Main outcome variables
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Anxiety