目前,穴位按摩被广泛接受为管理疼痛的非药物疗法,恶心和呕吐,和心理健康状况。由于指压可以自我管理,临床医生和研究人员对信息和通信技术(ICT)传播穴位按摩以管理症状的兴趣增加了。这项小型审查是为了检查使用ICT进行指压的临床研究,特别注重自我按摩。通过搜索MEDLINE,EMBASE,中央,收集了2021年12月31日之前发表的所有使用ICT进行自我穴位按摩的研究。12项研究符合纳入标准。自2020年以来发表的研究中有一半以上(4/7,54.14%)被描述为与COVID-19有关。作为目标条件,肌肉骨骼损伤或疼痛,癌症相关症状,痛经,心理健康问题,考虑肥胖。最常用的穴位是LI4、LR3和神门。此外,智能手机应用程序是最常用的ICT方法来支持自我指压。除了自我穴位按摩的基本信息,其他工具,如定时器,提醒,和时间表检查器,以促进其实现已被纳入智能手机应用程序。最近,已经有一些尝试将指压和ICT结合起来。虽然这些研究主要集中在肌肉骨骼疼痛或损伤,最近出现了与COVID-19相关的心理健康研究。然而,迄今为止,很少有研究进行过,使其难以全面把握这一领域的发展趋势。因此,需要更多的研究来评估在更多不同的临床领域结合自我穴位按压和ICT的可行性和有效性。
Currently, acupressure is widely accepted as a non-pharmacological therapy for managing pain, nausea and vomiting, and mental health conditions. Since acupressure can be self-administered, clinicians and researchers\' interest in information and communication technologies (ICTs) for disseminating acupressure to manage symptoms has increased. This mini
review was conducted to examine clinical studies of acupressure using ICTs, with a particular focus on self-acupressure. Through a search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CENTRAL, all studies of self-acupressure using ICTs published before December 31, 2021 were collected. Twelve studies met the inclusion criteria. More than half of the studies published since 2020 (4/7, 54.14%) were described as being related to COVID-19. As target conditions, musculoskeletal injuries or pain, cancer-related symptoms, dysmenorrhea, mental health issues, and obesity were considered. The most frequently used acupoints were LI4, LR3, and Shenmen. Moreover, smartphone applications were the most commonly used ICT method to support self-acupressure. In addition to the basic information of self-acupressure, other tools such as timers, reminders, and schedule checkers to facilitate its implementations have been incorporated into the smartphone applications. Recently, there have been some attempts to combine acupressure and ICTs. Although these studies mainly focus on musculoskeletal pain or injuries, recent studies related to mental health have emerged in relation to COVID-19. However, few studies have been conducted to date, making it difficult to fully grasp the trends in this field. Therefore, more studies are needed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of combining self-acupressure and ICTs in more diverse clinical areas.