The Effectiveness of Acupressure on ImprovingConstipation among the Elderly Living in a Long-termCare Facility in Southern Taiwan
| Autor: | Yu-May Liang, 梁玉梅 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 97 The Constipation is a common disorder in the Elderly, The senior citizen face with the body and mind decline following one kind or many kinds of chronic illness, in addition medicine taking, which make the constipation to become common health question in old people. At present the constipation in the Elderly often uses purgative to improve, but using Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the acupressure in the related research appears very defective. Therefore, this research goal is for the purpose of discussing the acupressure to the result of constipation in the Elderly, This research picks the quasi-experimental design. We find 60 years old above elderly from Long-term Care Facility in Southern Taiwan, who had normal cognition function and scored 20 above in the Barthel’s Index, and with bowel movement character conforming to Bristol Stool ScaleⅠandⅡ type. We randomly assigned them to experimental group with 30 people and control group with 30 people. The experimental elderly carries on Zusanli (ST36) and Shangjuxu (ST37) on foot by way of researcher acupressure, for 8 minutes, however, the control group elderly only accepted 0.5 cm centimeter circular pastes label for the same time, and both group continually carried out for 6 days. Stethoscope survey before and immediately after every test in each case checked the intestines creeping motion. Then we appraised their daily solution times, and evaluated their subjective feeling by of VAS meter. The research material pick the t-test to analysis, and find that in the intestines creeping motion times, the experimental and control group achieve the remarkable difference (p< .05), In the daily solution times, from the third day on, it became significant (p= .000), In the fifth day and sixth day, the experimental group and control group, had obvious feeling difference (p= .000), The experimental group had forward feeling to the acupressure, and they score 0 by way of VAS. Finally we hope this research results may provide the related organization staff reference to handle with constipation in the elderly and windily promoted to elderly living in communication to elevate their quality of living. |
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