Evaluation of Touch Massage on Anxiety in Critically Ill Patients (REaLAX)

Versailles Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Anxiety

Treatments

Procedure: touch massage

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03030482

P14/10_REaLAX

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anxiety is a common problem encountered in a about 43 % of critically ill patients. Its occurrence can be related to several causes, mainly dominated by invasive procedures.

anxiety management is typically based on a combination of prevention, evaluation, and therapeutic agents. However, it appears important to develop adjuvant approaches. Touch massage is one of them and that has been evaluated in various medical conditions.

The aim of our study is to evaluate the anxiolytic effect of touch massage in critically ill patients during potentially painful nursing procedures.

Enrollment

70 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All adult patients (age≥18 years) hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit > 24 h
Requiring mechanical ventilation or not
Securité Sociale affiliated
Patient with accessible zone for touch massage (head-face, arms-hands, feet, legs and back)
No significant event (invasive procedure, diagnostic ad, CAT,MRI) before enrollment

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant
Legal guardianship
Neurological failure : stroke ischemic or hemorrhagic, meningitis, status epilepticus,polytrauma( including head trauma),meningo encephalitis, meningism,
Patient with upper limbs neuromuscular disorders
Cutaneous lesion (zone of touch massage)
Temperature ≥ 38,5°C
A positive score of CAM ICU scale
Patient refuse to participate