Effectiveness of Massage Applied to Hemodialysis Patients

Zeynep Yildirim

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Nurse's Role

Treatments: Other: Massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06604403

Massage

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to determine the effect of massage on comfort and fatigue levels of hemodialysis patients.

Full description

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is a health problem that causes significant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The prevalence of the disease is increasing worldwide, especially in developing countries. Hemodialysis (HD) is the most common treatment method for CRF in the world. Approximately 90% of patients with CRF receive HD treatment. Despite advances in technology and medical care due to HD treatment, patients experience many physical and psychosocial symptoms. It is emphasized that comfort is significantly negatively affected in HD patients due to reasons such as the direct impact of HD treatment on the daily and social lives of patients. Increasing the comfort level is important for the patient to continue their daily life activities. In addition, comfort is accepted as the basis of quality nursing care. Increasing the comfort levels of HD patients provides lower comorbidity and mortality rates and improvement in institutional patient outcomes. Fatigue, one of the physical symptoms seen in HD patients, affects 60-95% of patients. Fatigue increases the patients' dependency levels, reduces their physical capabilities, negatively affects the patient and their family economically and reduces their quality of life. Therefore, effective management of fatigue is of great importance for the patient. Despite affecting the patients' lives to this extent, fatigue and discomfort have often been overlooked and neglected symptoms due to their subjective nature. Various pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment methods are used to control fatigue due to CRF or HD and to bring the desired patient comfort. One of the non-pharmacological methods is massage. Massage can be defined as scientific systematic manipulations applied to body tissues in order to affect the locomotor system and nervous system as well as the general circulation. There are studies in the literature where various applications are applied to HD patients to affect fatigue and comfort. However, it is striking that there is no study examining the effect of massage on the comfort and fatigue levels of patients receiving HD treatment. Therefore, the research was planned to examine the effect of massage on the comfort level and fatigue level of HD patients.

Enrollment: 58 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study
• Being 18 years of age or older
• Receiving hemodialysis treatment in a dialysis unit for at least six months
• Not having a condition that prevents verbal communication
• Not having a psychiatric problem

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who left the study at any stage
• Patients who had been receiving hemodialysis treatment for less than 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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58 participants in 2 patient groups

Massage Group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in the intervention group will receive post-hemodialysis massage twice a week for four weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Massage

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Routine nursing care was given to the patients in this group without any message.