Analgesic effect of auricular point acupressure for acute pain in patients with dementia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Schedule of enrollment, interventions, and assessments

Procedure	Study period
	Enrolment	Post-allocation
	Dementia patients with acute pain	T0	T1	T2
Enrolment
Eligibility screen	×
Informed consent	×
Allocation	×
Interventions
Control group			×	×
Treatment group			×	×
Assessments
Face pain scale revised	×	×	×	×
Blood pressure		×	×	×
Oxygen saturation		×	×	×
Heart rate		×	×	×
Satisfaction				×
Acceptance				×
Side effect			×	×
Additional use of analgesics during the intervention				×

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