The Effect of Foot Reflexology in Intensive Care Nurses

Kafkas University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nurse; Fatigue; Pain; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05679726

kafkasU-80576354

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental research design to examine the effect of foot reflexology applied to nurses working in the intensive care unit on stress, fatigue and low back pain.

Full description

The universe of the research consisted of a total of 90 nurses working in a university and a public hospital in a city. Among the nurses, those who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study will form the sample. Assignment to the intervention and control group will be determined in the computer environment using a simple randomization method (www.randomizer.org/). The number of samples was determined using power analysis. It was decided to recruit a total of 42 nurses, 21 for each group.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• -Intensive care unit nurse
• Those aged 18 to 65 years
• Working in intensive care for at least 6 months
• Back pain for at least 3 months
• Not pregnant, non-breastfeeding
• Having a regular menstrual cycle
• Vascular disease and foot fracture, wound, scar, skin damage etc. no situation
• Volunteered to participate in the research
• Not using antidepressants, sleeping pills, etc.

Exclusion criteria

• Working in intensive care for less than 6 months
• No chronic low back pain
• Pregnant, lactating
• Do not have a regular menstrual cycle
• Vascular disease and foot fracture, wound, scar, skin damage etc. situation found
• Using antidepressants, sleeping pills, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group (reflexology group)

Experimental group

Description:

The group in which reflexology massage (foot massage) was applied once a week for 20 minutes (10 minutes on each foot) for a total of 4 weeks, and the pain scale and fatigue and stress level were measured once a week at the beginning of the study and at the end of the study 4 weeks later.

Treatment:

Behavioral: massage

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Pain scale once a week for 4 weeks without any application, and fatigue and stress level at the beginning of the study and at the end of the study after 4 weeks were measured in the group.