effects of acupressure on anxiety nursing, midwifery and operating room students

ABSTRACT

Anxiety is a type of worry and fear can effects learning, decision making and performance of medical sciences and clinical decision making. Based on literature review, acupressure non medical method for decrease of anxiety is an appropriate method to reduce anxiety. Determine the effects of acupressure on anxiety nursing, midwifery and operating room students in the beginning of clinical training. In this single-blind clinical trial study, 66 students of nursing, midwifery and operating room that were in the parts of neonatal, delivery and operating room in the beginning of training course were selected. They were divided to P6 and Thumbs groups. The questionnaire included two parts l] demographic data [sex and age], 2] Silberberg state trait anxiety scale completed before and after applying pressure in each group. Data analyzed by SPSS 16 software. Stata software used for study power analysis. The mean and standard deviation was 21/26+1/80 for age and 93/9%of samples were female. Also P6 and thumb group were equal in age and sex. There were not any significant difference between state and trait anxiety before intervention in all of the students and two groups were equal. In addition after acupressure we found increased mean of state and trait anxiety in nurse and operative room students than before acupressure, but it decreased in midwifery students that this was not significant statistically. It seems that ineffectiveness of acupressure on nurse, midwifery neonatal and operative room parts, causes of client's referral and their condition sensitivity