The effect of foot reflexology on urine retention after surgical operations

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• Conditions: Relation between foot reflexology with urine retention after surgical operations.

• Registration Number: IRCT2014031416987N1
• Lead Sponsor: Gonabad University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 22 February 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

the patient's inability to urinate after non-emergency operations despite his/her need to urinate for 30 minutes; the patient's inability to urinate following surgery after 6 hours and with no need to urinate; complete consciousness; the ability to communicate with others and report the signs and severity of urinary retention; being 18 years old or above; willingness to participate in the study; not having previous renal failure; urethra catheterization; nephrolithiasis; urinary infection; urethra stenosis; benign prostate hypertrophy; not having previous nervous disease (brain stroke, neuropathy due to alcohol or diabetes, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spinal lesions, and surgery on nervous system); not having fracture, ulcer, skin problems, and plaster in the foot exposed to reflexology; the surgery performed in all patients should not last more than 3 hours; not applying urinary catheter prior to, during, or after entering the surgery ward; no addiction record during the last six months; and not taking medicines decreasing the contraction power of bladder muscle such as anti-depression drugs, like imipramine, anti-spasmodic like oxybutynin, anti-cholinergic like hydrochloride and dicyclomine, anti-histamines and also medicines increasing the resistance of bladder sphincter like Alfa-adrenergic (Ephedrine Sulfate and Pseudoephedrine) and also beta-adrenergic, blockers like propranolol and estrogen.
Exclusion criteria: being sensitive to the foot reflexology; the patient or his/her guardian's refusal to continue the study; death or discharge; occurrence of any clinical condition for the patient which makes intervention impossible.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rinary Retention. Timepoint: Immediatly, after 15 minutes, after 30 minutes of the foot reflexology. Method of measurement: Scaled.