Table 6.

The effects of acupressure use on menopausal symptoms

Purpose of the study	Type of study	Result	Source
The effect of acupressure on early menopausal complications	Blind random clinical trial and placebo-controlled.[121]	Reduce menopause complications.[121]	[121]
The effect of acupressure on sleep quality in postmenopausal women	Single-blind randomized clinical trial.[125] Double-blind randomized clinical trial.[126]	Improve sleep quality.[125,126]	[125,126]
The effect of acupressure on hot flashes in postmenopausal women	Clinical trial.[25] Randomized clinical trial through purposive sampling.[127]	Improve hot flashes and menopausal symptoms.[25,127]	[25,127]
The relationship of subjective sleep quality and cardiac autonomic nervous system in postmenopausal women with insomnia under auricular acupressure	A pretest/posttest study.[128]	Increases the parasympathetic activity of the heart and decreases the sympathetic activity of the heart which can improve sleep quality.[128]	[128]