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The effect of foot reflexology massage on pain, fatigue and physiological parameters in patients CABG

Not Applicable
Conditions
CABG.
T82.9 Unspecified complication of cardiac and vascular prosthetic device, implant and graft
Registration Number
IRCT2015112122466N7
Lead Sponsor
niversity of Medical Sciences Bushehr, Vice chancellor for research
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria included; Patient willingness to participate in the study, being first heart surgery, elective open heart surgery, age 18 and older, The absence of deformity and structural deformity in the legs, full consciousness after surgery, not addicted to drugs or alcohol and etc, lack of suffering from sensorimotor disorders, lack of hearing and vision disorders, no history of foot reflexology.

Exclusion criteria included; having arterial line in foot, blood disorders and thrombocytopenia, need to intra-aortic balloon pump, intubated for more than 24 hours, bleeding more than 200 ml per hour of chest tubes, perform repair or replace the valve with CABG, wound infection and skin disease in the legs, having cardiac pacemaker, remobilization to the intensive care unit for further treatment, lack of consent to continue participating in the study, lack of access to suitable environmental conditions for intervention during the investigation.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain. Timepoint: Ten minutes before and at 10 minutes, 30 minutes and 24 hours after the intervention. Method of measurement: McGill pain questionnaire and Numerical Rating Scale (NRS).;Fatigue. Timepoint: Ten minutes before and at 10 minutes, 30 minutes and 24 hours after the intervention. Method of measurement: Numerical Rating Scale (NRS).;Physiological parameters. Timepoint: Ten minutes before and at 10 minutes, 30 minutes and 24 hours after the intervention. Method of measurement: questionnaire.
Secondary Outcome Measures
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