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Hand Massage and Play Activity in the Elderly

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Mersin University

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Nursing Caries

Treatments

Other: Hand massage
Other: Play activity

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05569616
AKAZAK.TEZ-KTÜ

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is no study found that examined the effects of hand massage and play activity on the loneliness, comfort and psychological well-being of the elderly in nursing homes. This study was planned as a pretest-posttest randomized controlled dual center study in order to examine the effects of hand massage and play activity on loneliness, comfort and psychological well-being in the elderly. 60 elderly people living in two nursing homes in Mersin city center will form the sample of the study. The sample will consist of three groups as hand massage group, game activity group and control group. The data were using the "Elderly Information Form", "Standardized Mini-Mental Test", "Loneliness Scale fort he Elderly", "General Comfort Scale", "Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale", "Hand Massage" and "Play Activity (Jenga) will be collected. Hand massage group will be applied hand massage for 20 minutes for four weeks; the game activity group will play Jenga (game activity) for one hour a week. The control group will receive the institution's standart of care. Frequency, number, mean, Student's test and/or Mann-Whitney U test, ANOVA and/or Kruskal-Wallis test, Chi-square test and/or Correlation Analysis will be used in the analysis of the data. As a result of this research, the effects and benefits of hand massage and play activity on the loneliness, comfort and psychological well-being levels of the elderly living in nursing homes will be determined, and it is anticipated that these effects and benefits will be included in evidence-based guidlines.

Enrollment

60 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

65 to 85 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Be in the age range of 65-84 years
  2. Being literate
  3. No visual or hearing impairment
  4. Ability to communicate verbally
  5. Loss of sensation in the hand, arthritis, phlebitis, inflammation, eczema and fracture, etc. absence
  6. Absence of any finger or limb loss
  7. A score of 25 and above on the Standardized Mini Mental Test
  8. Not having been diagnosed with a mental illness such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or major depression
  9. Staying in a nursing home for at least three weeks
  10. Agreeing to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

  1. Being 85 years or older
  2. Having sensory problems in the hands
  3. Having hand and nail deformities
  4. Having an open wound or burn on the hands
  5. Loss of limbs in fingers
  6. Don't have neuropathy

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

60 participants in 3 patient groups

Hand massage group
Experimental group
Description:
Based on the hand massage procedure, hand massage with baby oil will be applied for 20 minutes, three times a week (12 times in total) for 4 weeks.
Treatment:
Other: Hand massage
Play activity group
Experimental group
Description:
It will be played in groups of two for one hour once a week. The application will take 4 weeks.
Treatment:
Other: Play activity
Control group
No Intervention group
Description:
These elderly people in the control group will benefit from the standard care practices offered in the institution, and no intervention will be given to these elderly people by the researcher.

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