Effects of Hand Massage Applied With Two Different Methods

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Acute; Reflexology; Angiopathy, Peripheral

Treatments: Other: classic hand massage; Other: reflexology massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06853860

KutahyaHSU-NECİBE-DAĞCAN-0006

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is no study finding examining the effects of the classical hand massage and hand reflexology massage methods on pain, anxiety and physiological parameters after coronary angiography. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the effects of reflexology hand massage and classical hand massage on pain, anxiety and physiological parameters after coronary angiography.

Full description

There is no study finding examining the effects of the classical hand massage and hand reflexology massage methods on pain, anxiety and physiological parameters after coronary angiography.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Patients who are over 18 years old

  • Can speak Turkish
  • Agree to participate in the study
  • Have not undergone emergency coronary angiography
  • Have not consumed coffee or hypnotic drugs at least 12 hours before
  • Have no history of chronic pain (e.g. arthritis)
  • Are not addicted to alcohol or drugs
  • Have no psychological problems (such as depression, anxiety disorder)
  • Have no problem with having their hands massaged; those who do not have any skin lesions, sensory and motor disorders, amputations, burns, or pathological diseases related to muscles and bones
  • Have not used anxiolytics

Exclusion criteria

• • Those who do not volunteer to participate in the study

  • Those who have any skin lesions, burns, open wounds, muscle and bone pathological diseases on their hands,
  • Those who develop delirium during the follow-up period
  • Those who develop complications after coronary angiography (such as bleeding, etc.)
  • Arrhythmia
  • Hemodynamic instability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

reflexology group

Experimental group

Description:

reflexology group

Treatment:

Other: reflexology massage

Classic hand massage group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Classic hand massage group

Treatment:

Other: classic hand massage