Effects of Classical Massage and Benson Relaxation Exercise on Heart Failure Patients

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Symptoms and Signs; Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Classical Massage; Behavioral: Benson Relaxation Exercise; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifier

NCT04292665

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with heart failure will be entered. Participants will be randomized to one of three study arms: Arm 1: Classical massage, Arm 2: Relaxation, Arm 3: Control Hypothesis: Classical Massage and Benson Muscle Relaxation will decrease frequency, severity, discomfort of symptoms and improve quality of life.

Full description

Previous reports have revealed that classical massage and Benson relaxation exercise are promising for physiological parameters such as respiratory rate, pulse, blood pressure in heart failure patients. On the other hand, research examining effects of these approaches on physical symptom status that is including dyspnea, orthopnea, fatigue, chest pain, peripheral edema, sleep problems and dizziness and quality of life is limited. The present study investigates the effects of classical massage and Benson relaxation exercise in a single-site, 3-arm, randomized, controlled study of 96 patients with heart failure. Arm 1: Classical massage; Arm 2: Benson relaxation exercise; Arm 3: Control. The investigators hypothesize that Classical Massage and Benson relaxation exercise will decrease frequency, severity, discomfort of symptoms and improve quality of life.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being at least primary school graduates,
• Being over 18 years old
• Being diagnosed Stage III-IV with heart failure
• Not using any other complementary or integrative therapy during the study period

Exclusion criteria

• Having an additional disease such as advanced stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, cancer
• Stage I-II diagnosed with heart failure
• Having an active thrombosis
• Having a coagulation problem
• Not volunteering to participate in the research
• Patients who have been hospitalized for 5 days or less and discharged before five days after the start of the application.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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72 participants in 3 patient groups

Classical Massage

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will receive a total of fourteen individual applied classical massage sessions, twice daily for seven days, each session lasting 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Classical Massage

Relaxation

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will receive a total of fourteen individual counseling sessions, in a quiet room, twice daily for seven days, each session lasting 20 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Benson Relaxation Exercise

Control

Other group

Description:

Patients will continue to receive standard nursing care and no further intervention will be made during the research.

Treatment:

Other: Control