Massage therapy and reflexology effects on anxiety of patients before undergoing angiography at hajar hospital in shahrekord - 2013
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- nstable Angina.Unstable angina
- Registration Number
- IRCT2016101719316N3
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for Research - Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75
Inclusion Criteria
age = 18 years old; State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was scored less than 60 by each applicant. This means participants are not suffering from a severe anxiety disorder; patients were entered by their own interest; not having history of suffering from mental retardation, deafness, or blindness; no history of suffering from any psychiatric or anxiety disorder and not taking any anti-anxiety disorder drug; no history of any burn scar, rashes, trauma in the sites being massaged.
Exclusion criteria: no willing to continue their enrollment; suffering from any psychiatric or clinical problems while being under treatment for this study.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety change after each intervention. Timepoint: Before and 15 minutes after intervention. Method of measurement: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Vital signs changes after intervention. Timepoint: Before and 15 minutes after intervention. Method of measurement: Clinical examination, sphygmomanometer.