THE EFFECT OF HAND AND FOOT MASSAGE ON FATIGUE IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS

Mersin University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hemodialysis Patients

Treatments: Other: foot massage; Other: hand massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04139759

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Hemodialysis patients face many problems related to disease and treatment, fatigue is stated as the most common of these problems. Therefore, The aim of this study is to examine the effect of hand massage and foot massage on fatigue in hemodialysis patients.

Full description

In parallel with the recent technological advances in medicine, increasing the possibilities of diagnosis and treatment of diseases has increased the average life expectancy and the incidence of chronic diseases. Chronic renal failure (CRF), which is one of the increasing chronic diseases, has become an important public health problem due to its negative impact on quality of life both in the world and in our country, high morbidity, mortality and treatment costs. According to the Joint Report of the Turkish Ministry of Health and Turkish Nephrology Association; by the end of 2016, Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) applied total 74,475 patients (including pediatric patients), RRT is applied and while the most common form of treatment has been found to be hemodialysis treatment with 76.12%. Unless a successful renal transplantation is performed, hemodialysis treatment required to be performed until the end of life and provides a longer life, but it also causes biological, psychological, social and economical problems arising from treatment. Fatigue, which often related to problems with its biological dimension, reduces the quality of life by adversely negatively affecting individual's daily life activities.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Taking HD therapy, in the dialysis unit of a public hospital in Turkey, between October 19, 2018 - February 11, 2019,
• Agree to participate in the study with a written permission,
• Over the age of 18,
• Open to communication with complete orientation,
• Speaks and understands Turkish
• Receiving HD treatment 3 times a week for 6 months and longer,
• No loss of sensation, mass, fracture or ingrown toenail (onyxis),
• In the lower extremities; without pathological and tumoral disease, phlesis, embolism and no bleeding disorder related to amputation, fracture, infection, wound, skin disease, muscle and bones,
• Patients with a Standardized Mini Mental Test (SMMT) score of 24 or more, in patients older than 65 years,

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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84 participants in 3 patient groups

hand massage group

Experimental group

Description:

In the hand massage group (n = 28), hand massage was applied to the hand without fistula for 8 minutes, 3 times a week, for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: hand massage

Foot massages group

Experimental group

Description:

Foot massages were applied to both feet of the patients in the foot massage group (n = 28), 3 times a week, for 4 weeks and patting and kneading movements were repeated 3-4 times.

Treatment:

Other: foot massage

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients in the control group (n = 28) were not administered except nursing interventions in the HD unit.