Auricular Point Acupressure Combined with Compound Lidocaine Cream to Manage Arteriovenous Fistula Puncture Pain: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 6

Comparison of BP and HR before and after intervention ().

		HR	Systolic blood pressure	Diastolic blood pressure
Control	Before	91.67 ± 15.34	144.38 ± 14.56	88.47 ± 5.79
	Post	84.46 ± 11.84	146.67 ± 16.54	86.44 ± 5.08
CLC	Before	89.03 ± 13.49	147.26 ± 12.59	88.19 ± 6.44
	Post	78.68 ± 10.23	140.77 ± 14.29	80.31 ± 3.26
APA	Before	90.33 ± 14.25	145.12 ± 13.73	87.58 ± 4.78
	Post	79.67 ± 11.86	139.55 ± 11.36	75.40 ± 5.78
APA + CLC	Before	91.46 ± 16.09	146.33 ± 13.22	86.83 ± 5.44
	Post	77.66 ± 10.80	132.83 ± 10.40	73.77 ± 4.77
F^a	Before	0.201	0.206	0.498
	Post	5.617	5.409	42.067
	Before	0.896	0.850	0.916
	Post	<0.001	0.002	<0.001

CLC = compound lidocaine cream; APA = auricular point acupressure; , , . Before represents the preintervention comparison among the 4 groups; Post represents the postintervention comparison among the 4 groups; indicates comparison between any two groups by Least Significant Difference; compared with APA and CLC by Least Significant Difference pairwise comparison. ^aSingle factor analysis of variance.