This study aims to examine the effect of hand massage on patients receiving HD treatment on the severity of post-dialysis fatigue and post-dialysis recovery time.
After obtaining the necessary permissions for the research, informing the patients about the purpose, importance and method of the study by the researcher, and having the volunteer patients read and sign a consent form, the patients were randomly divided into two groups. Randomization of the groups was done in a computer environment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
48
The patients in the hand massage application group were asked by the researcher; Hand massage with olive oil was applied 12 times in total, three times a week for four weeks. No application was made to the side with fistula.
Patients in the control group received routine nursing care in the clinic for four weeks.
Amasya University İnstitute of Health Sciences
Amasya, Merkez, Turkey (Türkiye)
fatigue severity
Fatigue severity was evaluated before starting the application (pre-test) Post-Dialysis Fatigue Scale: Kodama et al. The "Post-Dialysis Fatigue Scale" developed by (2020) is a five-item likert type scale consisting of 13 items. The scale is used to evaluate the severity of fatigue by examining the factors associated with fatigue observed after the end of treatment in dialysis patients. According to Özen et al. (2021) the total number of items in the scale after Turkish validity and reliability made by is 11.
Time frame: one week= first session
recovery time
Recovery time after dialysis was evaluated before starting the application (pre-test)
Time frame: One week= first session
fatique severity
The effect of hand massage on fatigue severity was measured Post-Dialysis Fatigue Scale: Kodama et al. The "Post-Dialysis Fatigue Scale" developed by (2020) is a five-item likert type scale consisting of 13 items. The scale is used to evaluate the severity of fatigue by examining the factors associated with fatigue observed after the end of treatment in dialysis patients. According to Özen et al. (2021) the total number of items in the scale after Turkish validity and reliability made by is 11.
Time frame: After 4 weeks
recovery time after dialysis
The effect of hand massage on recovery time after dialysis was measured
Time frame: After 4 weeks
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