The Effect of Foot Reflexology in Intensive Care Nurses

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Completed

Brief Summary: This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental research design to examine the effect of foot reflexology applied to nurses working in the intensive care unit on stress, fatigue and low back pain.

Detailed Description: The universe of the research consisted of a total of 90 nurses working in a university and a public hospital in a city. Among the nurses, those who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study will form the sample. Assignment to the intervention and control group will be determined in the computer environment using a simple randomization method (www.randomizer.org/). The number of samples was determined using power analysis. It was decided to recruit a total of 42 nurses, 21 for each group.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Working in intensive care for less than 6 months
No chronic low back pain
Pregnant, lactating
Do not have a regular menstrual cycle
Vascular disease and foot fracture, wound, scar, skin damage etc. situation found
Using antidepressants, sleeping pills, etc.

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group (reflexology group)	massage	The group in which reflexology massage (foot massage) was applied once a week for 20 minutes (10 minutes on each foot) for a total of 4 weeks, and the pain scale and fatigue and stress level were measured once a week at the beginning of the study and at the end of the study 4 weeks later.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
pain severity	pre test	measurement of nurses' low back pain severity score A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is one of the pain rating scales. VAS pain score is evaluated as "painless" (score=0) and "worst pain" (score=10). score \<3 mild pain, 3-6 mild-to-moderate pain, and \>6 moderate-to-severe pain
fatique	pre test	The fatigue severity scale There are 9 questions in the scale and each question consists of 7 points. An increase in the scale score indicates an increase in the level of fatigue. The scale determines the fatigue status of individuals in the last 1 month. Questions are scored as I totally disagree (1)- I totally agree. If the average score is 5 and above, it is considered as "fatigue".
stress	pre test	Perceived Stress Scale ; There are 14 items in the scale, which was developed as a five-point Likert-type rating scale. The scale consists of "never (0), almost never" (1), "sometimes" (2), "often" (3) "very often" (4). The lowest and highest scores a participant can obtain from this scale are 0 and 56, respectively.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
pain severity	post test(at the end of the 4th week)	measurement of nurses' low back pain severity score A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is one of the pain rating scales. VAS pain score is evaluated as "painless" (score=0) and "worst pain" (score=10). score \<3 mild pain, 3-6 mild-to-moderate pain, and \>6 moderate-to-severe pain
fatique	post test (at the end of the 4th week)	The fatigue severity scale There are 9 questions in the scale and each question consists of 7 points. An increase in the scale score indicates an increase in the level of fatigue. The scale determines the fatigue status of individuals in the last 1 month. Questions are scored as I totally disagree (1)- I totally agree. If the average score is 5 and above, it is considered as "fatigue".
stress	post test(at the end of the 4th week)	Perceived Stress Scale ; There are 14 items in the scale, which was developed as a five-point Likert-type rating scale. The scale consists of "never (0), almost never" (1), "sometimes" (2), "often" (3) "very often" (4). The lowest and highest scores a participant can obtain from this scale are 0 and 56, respectively.