Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Sleep Quality and Anxiety in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Abant Izzet Baysal University

Status

Completed

Conditions

COPD

Anxiety

Sleep

Treatments

Other: Therapeutic Touch

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04842903

AIBU-SBF-MAC-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: The purpose is to determine the effect of therapeutic touch on the sleep quality and anxiety of individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Material and methods: This study was conducted between March 2018 and March 2019 as a randomized controlled experimental study conducted with pre-test post-test model. In addition to the routine nursing care, therapeutic touch (TT) and study scales were applied to the experimental group for a total of three sessions, once a day and 10 minutes each, for three consecutive days and only study scales were applied to the control group. The data was collected using Personal Information Form, Richard-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire and State Anxiety Inventory.

Enrollment

103 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Over the age of 18
Literate
Oriented, open to communication and cooperation
Those who are hospitalized in the clinic for at least four days
Patients who volunteered to participate in the study were included.

Exclusion criteria

Have any diagnosed psychiatric disorder
Using antidepressants, antihistamines, benzodiazepines, hypnotic and narcotic drugs
Persons using any other complementary and alternative treatment method during the therapeutic touch application were not included in the study.