Does acupressure help relieve PMS symptoms?

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is an important health problem that includescomplex symptoms and negatively influences the quality of life of womenespecially students. These symptoms may have a detrimental influence on students'attendance, academic performance and social activities. Acupressure is a nursingintervention that is used to manage a variety of health issues, including PMS. Thestudy aim: Establish the effect of acupressure on relieving PMS symptoms amongfemale nursing students. Study Design: A quasi-experimental design. Subjects: Aconvenient sample of 135 adolescent females at Tanta University's Nursing Facultyduring the third year of the 2024-2025 academic years. Study Tools: Two toolswere utilized: Tool I: A Structured interview schedule: It was composed of twocomponents: Part 1: Socio- demographic data and Part 2: Menstrual history. ToolII: PMSST: Part 1: Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool for Adolescents(PSST-A) and Part 2: A student’s symptoms ability to function. Results: asignificant reduction in the severity of PMS symptoms after the intervention,acupressure contributed to improved ability to function and there is strong positivecorrelation among the studied nursing students' total score of PMSS severity andtotal score of its interference with their ability to function after 1st menstrual cyclepost acupressure. Conclusion: It was determined that acupressure was helpful andreduced the symptoms of pms. Recommendations: The administrator should planfrequent in-service training sessions about the importance of acupressure and howto use it based on the issues facing teenage girls

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