A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AURICULAR ACCUPRESSURE FOR PAIN

Introduction: Pain is defined as a subjective sensory and emotional unpleasant associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or can describe the condition of the damage. To control pain, can be done using auricular acupressure. Methods: The design used in this study is a systematic review, with a literature search or study using online reference databases and aggregators in Pubmed, Proquest, Medline and Science Direct. Articles that met the study criteria were 15 articles. Results: This study showed that there is a significant influence of auricular acupressure intervention to decreased pain. Pain derived include mild pain to severe pain. Pain can be derived include chronic pain, neuropathic pain, post-operative pain, menstrual pain, pain due to cancer. Conclusion: Auricular acupressure is very effective to decrease the level of pain. The results of the overall article showed consistent results. There are several limitations of the study, namely at the level of bias is still not too significant. Future studies are expected to use the method of randomized controlled trials with sham group and the risk of bias is very small so the results obtained from the auricular acupressure intervention has a high degree of validity. Keywords: Systematic Review, Auricular acupressure, Pai