| Methods |
Design: three group parallel trial
Purpose: examine the effect of acupressure on fatigue in patients with end‐stage renal disease |
| Participants |
Patients: patients with end‐stage renal disease
Baseline comparability: yes |
| Interventions |
Placebo: acupressure on sites not regarded acupressure sites
Untreated: no acupressure
Experimental: acupressure on sites regarded acupressure sites
(Co‐intervention: standard medical care) |
| Outcomes |
Revised Piper fatigue Scale
Fatigue (100 mm VAS)
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
Beck Depression Inventory |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Blinding?
Outcome assessor |
Unclear risk |
Not relevant as patient reported outcome |
| Incomplete outcome data addressed?
All outcomes |
High risk |
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| Free of selective reporting? |
Unclear risk |
No protocol available |
| Free of other bias? |
Low risk |
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| No signs of variance inequality or skewness? |
Low risk |
No variance inequality (F‐test not statistically significant) and no skewness (1.64 standard deviations does not exceed the mean) |
| Trial size > 49? |
Low risk |
N = 71 |
| Clearly concealed allocation + trial size > 49 + drop‐out max 15% |
High risk |
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