The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of acupressure application in very low birth weight premature.
A quasi-experimental study is designed. Sixty premature babies will be recruited by purposed sampling, according to the criteria of very low birth weight (\<1500gm) from a sick baby room in a medical center. The control group only receive routine care in sick baby room unite. The babies in experimental group will be observed for one day, and then intervene the simplified acupressure three times a day for 15 days, and continuously recoding the observation and records until discharge. The intervention includes acupressure for 15 minutes each at 10Am, 1Pm and 4Pm.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
The babies in experimental group will be observed for one day, and then intervene the simplified acupressure three times a day for fifteen days, and continuously recoding the observation and records until discharge.
Body Weight
The data will be collected by a self-developed structured questionnaire, including: 1) demographic data of premature; 2)body weight every day until discharge.
Time frame: 15 days.
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