Study to Investigate Effect of Benson's Relaxation Technique on Iraqi Incident Hemodialysis Patients' Sleep Quality, 2024

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• Conditions: Condition 1: sleep disorder. Condition 2: Hemodialysis.; Other sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition; Extracorporeal dialysis; F51.8; Z49.1

• Registration Number: IRCT20230310057672N4
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Baghdad/college of Nursing

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 27 May 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 71

Inclusion Criteria

Patients who undergoing hemodialysis, agree to share in the study. who are from 27 years old, had undergone hemodialysis (HD) at least twice a week for a duration of 3-6 months only.
Patients were mentally attentive and oriented, literate, at the time of the data collection phase

Exclusion Criteria

Involvement with any other ongoing studies. the exclusion criteria patients who were diagnosed with unstable hypertension, arrhythmia, cardiac angina, congestive heart failure, acute cerebrovascular accident, or hepatic failure throughout the study were excluded from the study.
The presence of physical restrictions that delayed learning before or during the relaxation therapy was one of the exclusion criteria.
The study excluded participants who had emotional distress in the previous month.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome variable to improvement and promoting sleep of patients with hemodialysis (Quality of Sleep). Timepoint: After implementing the clinical trial intervention for approximately 30 days of applying the Benson relaxation technique to hemodialysis patients, the results of the intervention for sleep in dialysis patients (sleep quality) for both groups appear. Sleep quality will be evaluated after one month. Method of measurement: Measurement method before and after clinical intervention using The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is a self-report survey to evaluate the quality of sleep and disruptions experienced within a period of one month. and takes 5–10 minutes to complete (Buysse DJ, et al, 1989).