Comparison of foot and hand Reflexology on fatigue in patients undergoing hemodialysis
- Conditions
- Fatigue in Hemodialysis Patients.Care involving dialysis
- Registration Number
- IRCT201312222226N12
- Lead Sponsor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
age at least 18 years old and at least 6 months of dialysis; willingness to participate in this study; being on the list and do the weekly dialysis three times a week, each time for 3 or 4 hours of hemodialysis; having full awareness, listening and speaking ability acceptable to answer questions; to develop a degree of fatigue on the Fatigue Severity Scale; lack of fever and bleeding and thrombosis, numbness or paralysis of the limbs.
Exclusion criteria: in case of the any of these conditions during the study, the unit of study will be excluded: patients died during the study; transplantation during the study; any condition in which the patient's foot or hand reflexology massage; did not cooperate with the investigator during study and hemodynamic instability during hemodialysis.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fatigue reduces the hand and foot reflexology massage. Timepoint: Before the intervention, the end of the third week, the fifth week. Method of measurement: Fatigue Questionnaire (Fss).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method