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Effectiveness of Warm Compresses for the Eyes as a Nursing Technique to Provide Comfort - A Pilot Study Involving Healthy Individuals -

Effectiveness of Warm Compresses for the Eyes as a Nursing Technique to Provide Comfort - A Pilot Study Involving Healthy Individuals - - Effectiveness of Warm Compresses for the Eyes as a Nursing Technique to Provide Comfort - A Pilot Study Involving Healthy Individuals -

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
JPRN
Registry ID
JPRN-UMIN000018409
Enrollment
50
Registered
2015-12-01
Start date
2015-12-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-06-29

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

This study targets 50 medical workes (females in their twenties to sixties), who understand its objective and methods, and actively express their desire to participate in it. Those with a favorable health status in the absence of diseases requiring regular medical consultation or medications will be included. While postmenopausal females&#39

Interventions

I leave the intervals more than one week to a person targeted for equivalence and I sit down when I use the hot compress around the eyes part and measure the case.After the measurement sitting down, a

Sponsors

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine School of Nursing
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Female

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: This study targets 50 nursing students or nurses (females in their twenties to forties), who understand its objective and methods, and actively express their desire to participate in it. Those with a favorable health status in the absence of diseases requiring regular medical consultation or medications will be included. While postmenopausal females' participation is not particularly limited, premenopausal females are limited to those with a normal menstrual cycle, who are able to participate in the study within 10 days after the end of their period (hypothermic phase).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Those with inflammation (abnormalities of the eye, such as eye disease, inflammation, a wound, swelling, or eczema of or around the eye), hemorrhage, or irritative symptoms due to pain, for which warm compresses are contraindicated, are not allowed to participate in the study even when meeting the inclusion criteria.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
We evaluate the indexes before and after intervention.Blood pressure, pulse rate, heartbeat change analysis HF,LF/HF (LF:) diastolic as for the physiologic index for the axillary temperature, the shrinkage period blood pressure It is low frequency power and HF:high frequency power ratio), blood velocity.Three times ten minutes after the intervention measure these just after intervention before intervention.The biochemical index is Japanese edition POMS(Profile of Mood States) for saliva amylase, a psychological index.These measure twice ten minutes after the intervention before intervention.

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactMasako Murota

Kyoto Prefectural university of Medicine School of Medicine, Department of Nursing

murota@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp075-212-5437

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026