A person's life is a stage that passes in the time interval that ends with his birth when he opens his eyes to the world and his death when he closes his eyes to the world. Old age is a forced end for all people. Sleep is one of the most important and basic human needs. It prepares the individual for a new day by resting the body, strengthening and regulating the cerebral functions and repairing the brain. While a change in sleep pattern and quality affects a person's daily life activities, long-term persistence of this change may lead to deterioration of body and mental health.During Reiki practices, the hands are held in each position for 3-5 minutes by touching the head, neck, chest, abdominal cavity and groin. In problem areas, this time can be extended to 10-20 minutes. The duration of treatment lasts an average of 30-90 minutes. During the application, the person is in a lying or lying position and does not need to take off his clothes.
In the elderly, the pathology of fatigue has not yet been fully elucidated. Natural changes and the disadvantages of age can be the cause of fatigue. Decrease in muscle strength, sarcopenia, pain, inactivity, changes in body composition due to malnutrition, decrease in physical fitness, insufficient energy systems, cardiovascular and respiratory problems, medications used can cause fatigue in the elderly. It has been shown that 27-50% of the elderly suffer from moderate to severe fatigue. Increasing the severity of fatigue reduces the daily activity performance of the elderly (6). Today, in many areas, in addition to medical treatment to reduce the symptoms of chronic diseases, alternative and complementary medicine are also used. Reiki, which constitutes our research subject; one of the energy approaches, in Japan at the end of the 19th century, Dr. It is a complementary medicine application discovered by Usui in Sanskrit inscriptions, which has been shown to be effective on pain, depression, insomnia and fatigue symptoms. Reiki is generally safe and no serious side effects have been reported. Reiki practice in the last 10 years; it increases among physicians, nurses and other health workers.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
reiki
Gülcan B Turan
Elâzığ, Merkez, Turkey (Türkiye)
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PUKI);
The scale is a safe and consistent questionnaire that evaluates the amount of sleep, sleep quality, presence and severity of sleep disorders in individuals in the last month.There are seven components in PUKI. These components are subjective sleep quality (component 1), sleep latency (component 2), sleep duration (component 3), habitual sleep efficiency (component 4), sleep disturbance (component 5), sleep medication use (component 6) and daytime dysfunction. (component 7). The evaluation score of each item is between 0-3. The total score obtained varies between 0-21. The higher the score, the worse the sleep quality. A score greater than five indicates poor sleep quality.
Time frame: 1 hours later
Piper Fatigue Scale
The scale evaluates the individual's subjective perception of fatigue in four sub-dimensions. These; behavior/violence sub-dimension evaluating the effect and severity of fatigue on activities of daily living (ADLs (6 items; 2-7); affect sub-dimension, which includes the emotional meaning attributed to fatigue (5 items; 8-12); it is the sensory sub-dimension (5 items; 13-17) that reflects the mental, physical and emotional symptoms of fatigue, and the cognitive/spiritual sub-dimension that reflects the effect of fatigue on cognitive functions and mental state (6 items; 18-23). As a result of the average score; 0 points are interpreted as no fatigue, 1-3 points as mild fatigue, 4-6 points as moderate fatigue, 7-10 points as severe fatigue. High scores obtained from the scale mean that the perceived fatigue level is high.
Time frame: 1 hours later
Visual Analog Scale (VAS) Evaluation
The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) is used to convert some values that cannot be measured numerically. Two end definitions of the parameter to be evaluated are written at the two ends of a 100 mm line, and the patient is asked to indicate where on this line their situation is appropriate by drawing a line or by placing a dot or pointing. For example, for pain, I have no pain at one end and very severe pain at the other end and the patient marks his/her current state on this line. The length of the distance from the point where there is no pain to the point marked by the patient indicates the patient's pain.
Time frame: 1 hours later
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