Effect of Benson relaxation technique on pain, physical activity, quality of sleep, quality of life, and clinical and biomedical parameter in hemodialysis patients
- Conditions
- Renal failure, Hemodialysis.Chronic kidney disease, stage 5
- Registration Number
- IRCT2013061613690N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Shiraz university of medical sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 86
The inclusion criteria of the study were being 18 years old or above, being on HD twice a week or more for at least the previous 3 months, and being alerted and oriented. On the other hand, the patients having unstable hypertension and angina, arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, acute cerebrovascular accident, hepatic failure, physical limitation for learning and performing the relaxation technique, and prior training or current use of relaxation therapy were excluded from the study. The patients with emotional upheaval during the previous month were excluded, as well. The reason for these exclusions was that these complications might affect the concentration which is important in the relaxation technique and these patients might have difficulty in performing this procedure.
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life. Timepoint: firt day of study and 8th week. Method of measurement: Fereance and Powers quality of life index, Dialysis version.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain. Timepoint: frist day and 8th week of study. Method of measurement: VAS.;Physical activity. Timepoint: first day and 8th week. Method of measurement: Daily Living Activity (ALD) & IADL.;Sleep. Timepoint: first day and 8th week. Method of measurement: quality of sleep Index.;Adherence and Biomedical Markers. Timepoint: first day and 8th week. Method of measurement: Biomedical Markers.