Effectiveness of Self-Administered Acupressure Intervention in Managing Constipation of Adult Psychiatric In-Patient

The acupressure intervention including the five acupoints. The acupressure will be performed once a day for 10 days in a group setting with same sex, supervised by a trained psychiatric nurse and preferably at least 2 hours after a meal.

The sham group will be trained to perform acupressure in a similar way to the intervention group, except that they will use five sham acupoints. After completion of the project, patients in the sham group will receive the same interventions as the intervention group.