Skin Traction Versus Position Splint in Patients With Hip Fracture

Inclusion Criteria: * Being inpatient who were planned the surgery due to the hip fracture (caput femur fracture, collum femur fracture, femur intertrochanteric fracture and subtrochanteric fracture) diagnosis in the Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic * Being 50 years old or more * Patients who speak and literate in Turkish * Patients who gave informed consent to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Any condition that emerges an obstacle for verbal and written interaction during data collection phase * Unable to perform written or verbal communication in Turkish * Withdrawal from the study due to medical reasons or death, at his/her will prior to preoperative data collection * Urgent non-elective surgery * Physician decision that do accept the method of immobilization assigned to the patient as appropriate