A study to assess the effectiveness of acupressure on reducing dysmenorrhoea among adolescent girls in a selected college at Indore.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
Dysmenorrhoea is a very common disorder. Dysmenorrhoea affects quality of life and even reduces productivity in general. One of the major physiological changes that take place in adolescent girls is the onset of menarche, which is often associated with problems of irregular menstruation, excessive bleeding, and dysmenorrhea. Of these, dysmenorrhea is one of the common problems experienced by many adolescent girls. Study was conducted in a selected nursing college at Indore. The conceptual frame work used for this study was based on Prescriptive theory by Ernestine Wiedenbach’s (1969). Pre experimental one group pre test post test design (O1 x O2) was used. Study consisted of 30 adolescent girlss between the age group of 18- 21 years. Convenience sampling technique was used to select the sample. Numerical pain rating scale and self administered rating scale to assess discomforts during dysmenorrhoea were used for data collection. The reliability of the tool (self administered rating scale to assess discomforts during dysmenorrhoea) was tested by split half method using Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient and it was found to be reliable (r = 0.82). The main study was conducted at Index College of nursing, Indore. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 levels. The findings of the study revealed that dysmenorrhoea score was high before acupressure and pain score reduced significantly after acupressure. As time increased the effect of acupressure was decreasing. This suggests that acupressure is one of the effective, non pharmacological measures to reduce dysmenorrhoea for 2-3 hours. This study showed that there was a positive correlation between dysmenorrhoea and discomforts and revealed that dysmenorrhoea affects studies and daily activities of the students. No relations between any demographical variables like age, type of family, monthly income, education of the mother, age of menarche, duration of pain, duration of menstrual cycle . Study revealed that mean score of dysmenorrhoea among students before acupressure (x = 5.367) was higher than immediately after administration ( x = 3.533). After 1 hour (x = 4.23) and three hours (x = 4.53) there was increase in mean score of dysmenorrhoea when compared to the mean score of immediately after acupressure where ‘t’ value was found to be significant (t29 = 6.26 p 0.05). The result showed that there was significant reduction in dysmenorrhoea after acupressure.
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Y. D. Stella
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