초록

Objectives : The objectives of this study were to examine the specificity and the sensitivity of tenderness testing on the ear about the postpartum breast pain, and to improve the efficacy of the tenderness test.

Methods : Thirty women who visited in the hospital for recuperating 2-14 days after childbirth participated in this study.
They answered the questionnaire of the severity of breast pain and their auricular acupuncture points were tested by a long metal probe with round tip 1.1mm in diameter.
We analyzed the relationship between auricular tenderness testing on mammary gland zone[CW6] and postpartum breast pain with validity and significance as grouping 8 diagnosis methods.

Results : When we consider above ‘moderate pain’ or ‘severe pain’ in the auricular tenderness testing as a positive sign,
and above ‘evere pain’ or ‘very severe pain’ in the self-reported breast pain score as a positive symptom,
the diagnostic efficacy was highest. The sensitivity for tenderness testing was 0.62—0.75, and the specificity was 0.64－0.72,
and the sensitivity and the specificity in the contralateral ear were a little higher than in the ipsilateral ear.

and the sensitivity and the specificity in the contralateral ear were a little higher than in the ipsilateral ear.

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