The Power of Hand Reflexology in Ameliorating Anxiety, Pain, and Fatigue Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
• Interventions: Behavioral: Hand Reflexology

• Registration Number: NCT05887362
• Lead Sponsor: Alexandria University

Brief Summary

Reflexology influences pain perception and pain-impulse transmission by releasing endorphins (12). Patients with a variety of medical illnesses can benefit from hand reflexology by lessening their physical and emotional discomfort (13, 14). Therefore, this study was done to investigate the power of hand reflexology in ameliorating anxiety, pain, and fatigue among patients undergoing coronary angiography

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-11-01
• Study Completion: 2022-11-15
• Study First Submitted: 2023-05-23
• Status Verified: 2023-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-06-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-06-01
• Study First Posted: 2023-06-02
• Last Update Posted: 2023-06-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients between the ages of 20 and 60 who were scheduled for non-emergency CA, Absence of any hands' sensory motor disorders, or upper limb vascular injuries.
• No abnormalities such as amputations, burns, skin lesions, and intervertebral disc herniation.
• No history of mental illnesses.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with severe mental problems

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
STUDY GROUP	Hand Reflexology	Each patient in the study group received 8 sessions of hand reflexology after CA in a room separating them from the patients in the control group.Using pleasant odourless almond oil to lubricate the patients' hands, the researcher used Ingham's approach to hand reflexology for 10 minutes, applying pressure for 5 minutes on the right hand and then the left.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Anxiety	4 months	The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was developed in 1988 by (17) to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms. The Likert scale for the 21 items that comprise the BAI ranges from 0 to 3. The overall score is between 0 and 63.
Fatigue	4 months	The Rhoten Fatigue Scale (RFS) is a subjective rating scale developed by (16) to measure a patient's fatigue level. It comprises a 10-centimeter line with extremely positive and negative statements at either end.
Pain intensity	4 months	It is a 10 cm horizontal line with two ends; the left end typically denotes "no pain," while the right end typically denotes "worst possible pain."

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria university; 🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt