The Effect of Reiki and Acupressure on Pain, Anxiety and Vital Signs

The Effect of Reiki and Acupressure Applied After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Pain, Anxiety and Vital Signs During Femoral Catheter Extraction: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

This research aims to determine the effects of reiki and acupressure applied after percutaneous coronary intervention on pain, anxiety and vital signs during femoral catheter extraction.

In this study, 84 patients with percutaneous coronary intervention were assigned to the reiki, acupressure and control groups by block randomization method.In the acupressure group (n=28) the heart meridian 7th point (HT7) large intestine meridian 4th point (LI4) and pericardial meridian 6th point (PC6) will be applied to a total of three points.Depending on the preparation and compression time on each point, the session duration of each patient will be 18 minutes on average.In the reiki group (n=28) the crown chakra (top of the head), the forehead chakra (above the forehead), the throat chakra (above the throat), the heart chakra (the middle of the chest), the solar plexus (under the chest, above the navel), the sacral chakra (below the navel) and the root chakra (above the coccyx) will be applied to the region of the 7 chakra points on.In the reiki group, the reiki application time will take 21 minutes on average.Routine care will be applied to the control group (n=28).Pre-test data of patients in the acupressure, reiki and control groups will be collected 30 minutes before femoral catheter extraction after percutaneous coronary. Posttest data will be collected five minutes after femoral catheter extraction.

Data will be collected using the "Personal Information Form", "Visual Analog Scale", "State Anxiety Inventory" and "Vital Signs Evaluation Form".

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years and over,
• Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the first time,
• Previously planned PCI (elective patients),
• No additional procedure to percutaneous coronary intervention,
• Awake and conscious during percutaneous coronary intervention (not taking sedatives)
• A single sandbag is placed on the intervention area,
• Able to lie flat on his back (without respiratory distress),
• Hemodynamically stable (absence of chest pain and arrhythmia),
• No analgesic drug administered at least four hours before,
• No complications such as hematoma or bleeding in the operation area,
• No deformity or lesion in the areas where acupressure will be applied,
• No previous experience of acupressure and reiki application,
• Not diagnosed with anxiety disorder and not receiving medical treatment,
• Literate,
• Have sufficient communication skills and
• Those who signed the Informed Consent Form to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Emergency patients whose PCI was not planned beforehand,
• Bleeding, hematoma, etc. at the femoral intervention site during and after the procedure. developing complications,
• Any deformity, wound or lesion in the areas where acupressure will be applied,
• Coronary angiography only,
• Thrombocyte level less than 100,000 mg/dl,
• Those who did not sign the Informed Consent Form to participate in the study