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

Randomized Controlled Quasi-experimental

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04139759
Enrollment
84
Registered
2019-10-25
Start date
2018-10-19
Completion date
2019-02-11
Last updated
2019-10-28

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Conditions

Hemodialysis Patients

Keywords

Nursing, Hemodialysis, Fatigue, Hand massage, Foot massage

Brief summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Interventions

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.

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.

Sponsors

Mersin University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

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

\-

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Pre-Hemodialysis / 1st Measurementfirst dayIn addition to verbal and written information, the first measurements were obtained by applying the Patient Presentation Form, Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue to the patients who were taken to hand massage, foot massage and control groups before HD treatment. In 1990, Lee et al. developed the Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue, consisting of 18 items, to determine fatigue. The items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 of the scale included fatigue subcomponent and 6, 7, 8, 9,10 items belong to the energy subcomponent. The Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue consists of 10 cm lines, the most positive expression at one end and the negative expression at the other end of the line. The high score of the fatigue subcomponent, the low score of the energy subcomponent, shows that the severity of fatigue is high.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
2 Weeks Later /2nd Measurementfifteenth dayAt the end of the second week of the hand massage and foot massage applications, the second measurements were obtained by reapplying the Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue scale to all three groups.In 1990, Lee et al. developed the Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue, consisting of 18 items, to determine fatigue. The items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 of the scale included fatigue subcomponent and 6, 7, 8, 9,10 items belong to the energy subcomponent. The Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue consists of 10 cm lines, the most positive expression at one end and the negative expression at the other end of the line. The high score of the fatigue subcomponent, the low score of the energy subcomponent, shows that the severity of fatigue is high.

Other

MeasureTime frameDescription
4 Weeks Later/ 3rd Measurementthirtieth dayAt the end of the third week of the hand massage and foot massage applications, the third measurements were obtained by reapplying the Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue scale to all three groups.In 1990, Lee et al. developed the Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue, consisting of 18 items, to determine fatigue. The items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 of the scale included fatigue subcomponent and 6, 7, 8, 9,10 items belong to the energy subcomponent. The Visual Similarity Scale for Fatigue consists of 10 cm lines, the most positive expression at one end and the negative expression at the other end of the line. The high score of the fatigue subcomponent, the low score of the energy subcomponent, shows that the severity of fatigue is high.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026