경혈점에 적용한 자장요법이 여고생의 월경통에 미치는 효과

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to understand the effects of the magnetic field therapy applied to the acupuncture point on dysmenorrhea experienced by high school girls and verifying the possibility to use this therapy as self-treatment arbitration. The research planning was an experimental research under taken by using the before and after test of randomly assigned control group. Collecting materials and experiment had been performed between March 20th and April 6th in 2006. Among female students in three high schools in K City who visited a public health center because of dysmenorrhea, 22 students agreed to participate in this research as the experimental group and 18 students as the comparison group. The experimental treatment had been applied to the experimental group for 3 hours, which used medical adhesive tape that was attached to a round shape medical magnet, a diameter of 2 mm and a thickness of 3 mm, with the magnetic force of 800 ~ 1200 Gauss to each acupuncture point. such as Samuengyo, Junggeuk, and Sinyu which help relieve dysmenorrhea. The comparison group had been tested by the same method using the ordinary magnet of the identical shape without any magnetic force. The GRS was divided into 15 divisions that was designed by Lee, Eun-ok and Choei, Myung-ae to detail subject expression on 10 mm, was employed as the pain gauge in the research measurement. Based on the study (Choe, Seoung-hui and Kim Hyeon-ok) the features of pain in dysmenorrhea had the same aspect of that in colic or childbirth. The subjective pain gauge was researched with using an instrument, created by Park, Young-sook and Huh, Young (1994), adopted the vocabulary of pain into the gauge of the pain in childbirth. The research procedure was for female students who visited public health center filled in questionnaires with dysmenorrhea GRS and ALPRS, the gauge of pain, before participating in the experiment. And then each group was tested for 3 hours. Participants before and after applying magnetic treatment filled each questionnaire with dysmenorrhea GRS and ALPRS. Then using SPSS Win 12.0 Program each data was analyzed by t-test, Repeated measures ANOVA. The result of the research is as follows: 1. "The GRS points in the experimental group, applied by Magnetic Field therapy on acupuncture point, is lower than that in the comparison group." (F=7.96, p=0.001) 2. "The ALPRS points in the experimental group, applied by Magnetic Field therapy on acupuncture point, is lower than that in the comparison group." (F=148.2, p=0.001) The above result has proved that the magnetic field therapy on acupuncture has an effect on the pain alleviation of dysmenorrhea of female high school students. Therefore, propose this therapy to dysmenorrhea of female students. In this research, ALPRS indicated validity on dysmenorrhea, so for verifying validity, further research is necessary.