Background: Early puerperal rehabilitation can interfere with a woman’s
ability to care for herself and her infant. Acupoint hot compress, with a
combination of acupoints and natural physical agent heat, has significant
potential to alleviate symptoms experienced during early puerperium. Current
evidence regarding the effects of acupoint hot compress therapy on early
puerperal rehabilitation is insufficient. The aim of this study is to address
this with a multi-center design and large sample size. Methods: This is
a prospective, multi-center, and randomized controlled clinical trial. A total of
1400 nulliparous women with a singleton pregnancy experiencing natural childbirth
from 14 hospitals will be enrolled and randomly allocated to either an
intervention group or a control group in a 1:1 ratio. Subjects in the control
group will only receive routine postpartum care. In addition to routine
postpartum care, the subjects in the intervention group will be administered a
4-hour acupoint hot compress with a constant temperature of 45
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Effectiveness of acupoint hot compress on early puerperal rehabilitation of parturients after natural childbirth: study protocol for a prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial
Yuhang Zhu1, Aihua Zhang1, Chang Liu2, Nicola Robinson3, Myeong Soo Lee4, Xiaoyang Mio Hu5, Hye Won Lee4, Rong Zhang6,7,8,9, Fan Qu1,*
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Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310006 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2
The Second Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 310053 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
3
School of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, SE1 0AA London, UK
4
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, 34054 Daejeon, Republic of Korea
5
Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, SO16 5ST Southampton, UK
6
Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, 100191 Beijing, China
7
Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, 100191 Beijing, China
8
Key Laboratory for Neuroscience, Ministry of Education of China, Neuroscience Research Institute, 100191 Beijing, China
9
Key Laboratory for Neuroscience, National Committee of Health and Family Planning of China, 100191 Beijing, China
*Correspondence: syqufan@zju.edu.cn (Fan Qu)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(6), 1350–1357;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog4806214
Submitted: 26 April 2021 | Revised: 24 June 2021 | Accepted: 1 July 2021 | Published: 15 December 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Keywords
Acupoint hot compress
Early puerperal rehabilitation
Study protocol
Randomized controlled clinical trial
Funding
ZY2020-01/Association for Maternal and Child Health
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