Investigating the Effect of Acupressure on the Patients’ Anxiety Before Open-Heart Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Table 3 Comparison of hemodynamic status of patients.

	Group	Mean ± SD before the first intervention	Mean ± SD after the first intervention	p	Mean ± SD before the second intervention	Mean ± SD after the second intervention	p
Systolic blood pressure	Test	129.57 ± 18.57	128.20 ± 17.43	0.08*	134.06 ± 16.88	131.28 ± 16.76	0.007†
	Control	132.28 ± 18.86	131.11 ± 17.27	0.39†	135.97 ± 16.10	134.60 ± 15.46	0.12*
	p	0.49§	0.43‡		0.65‡	0.30‡
Diastolic blood pressure	Test	78.31 ± 13.46	78.80 ± 12.62	0.82*	81.28 ± 10.69	81.60 ± 10.05	0.67*
	Control	79.02 ± 13.48	78.51 ± 12.74	0.68*	80.57 ± 10.22	79.42 ± 9.32	0.09*
	p	0.82‡	0.87‡		0.52‡	0.36‡
Heart rate	Test	73.93 ± 11.18	73.42 ± 10.64	0.07*	74.66 ± 10.61	72.84 ± 9/90	0.001^>*
	Control	73.33 ± 10.94	73.28 ± 10.96	0.93†	73.97 ± 10.99	73.68 ± 11.00	0.44†
	p	0.79§	0.89‡		0.76§	0.60‡

Between-group and within-group comparison of systolic blood pressure diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate values before the intervention and following the second acupressure intervention.
^* Wilcoxon test.
^† Paired t test.
^‡ Mann–Whitney test.
^§ Independent t test.

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