Hand Massage and Play Activity in the Elderly

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Recruiting

• Conditions: Nursing Caries
• Interventions: Other: Hand massage; Other: Play activity

• Registration Number: NCT05569616
• Lead Sponsor: Mersin University

Brief Summary

There is no study found that examined the effects of hand massage and play activity on the loneliness, comfort and psychological well-being of the elderly in nursing homes. This study was planned as a pretest-posttest randomized controlled dual center study in order to examine the effects of hand massage and play activity on loneliness, comfort and psychological well-being in the elderly. 60 elderly people living in two nursing homes in Mersin city center will form the sample of the study. The sample will consist of three groups as hand massage group, game activity group and control group. The data were using the "Elderly Information Form", "Standardized Mini-Mental Test", "Loneliness Scale fort he Elderly", "General Comfort Scale", "Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale", "Hand Massage" and "Play Activity (Jenga) will be collected. Hand massage group will be applied hand massage for 20 minutes for four weeks; the game activity group will play Jenga (game activity) for one hour a week. The control group will receive the institution's standart of care. Frequency, number, mean, Student's test and/or Mann-Whitney U test, ANOVA and/or Kruskal-Wallis test, Chi-square test and/or Correlation Analysis will be used in the analysis of the data. As a result of this research, the effects and benefits of hand massage and play activity on the loneliness, comfort and psychological well-being levels of the elderly living in nursing homes will be determined, and it is anticipated that these effects and benefits will be included in evidence-based guidlines.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-08-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-09-28
• Status Verified: 2022-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-10-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-10-04
• Study First Posted: 2022-10-06
• Last Update Posted: 2022-10-06
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-01
• Study Completion: 2024-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Be in the age range of 65-84 years
2. Being literate
3. No visual or hearing impairment
4. Ability to communicate verbally
5. Loss of sensation in the hand, arthritis, phlebitis, inflammation, eczema and fracture, etc. absence
6. Absence of any finger or limb loss
7. A score of 25 and above on the Standardized Mini Mental Test
8. Not having been diagnosed with a mental illness such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or major depression
9. Staying in a nursing home for at least three weeks
10. Agreeing to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria

1. Being 85 years or older
2. Having sensory problems in the hands
3. Having hand and nail deformities
4. Having an open wound or burn on the hands
5. Loss of limbs in fingers
6. Don't have neuropathy

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Hand massage group	Hand massage	Based on the hand massage procedure, hand massage with baby oil will be applied for 20 minutes, three times a week (12 times in total) for 4 weeks.
Play activity group	Play activity	It will be played in groups of two for one hour once a week. The application will take 4 weeks.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Elderly Introduction Form	First day	In this form, which was created by the researchers by scanning the literature; A total of 14 questions aimed at determining the introductory characteristics of the elderly (age, gender, marital status, education level, occupation, number of children, income level, place of residence, smoking and alcohol use, chronic disease diagnosis, duration, medications used, and length of stay in a nursing home) is located.
Standardized Mini Mental Test	will be applied on the first day. If the Standardized Mini Mental Test result is not 25 points or more, the patient will be excluded.	The standardized version of the original Mini Mental Test developed by Folstein et al. (1975) by Molloy and Standish (1997) is an easy-to-apply test that provides information about the degree of cognitive impairment. This test consists of "orientation, recording, attention, calculation, reminder, language tests and configuration" sections. Test; It is a test that can be administered by physicians, nurses and psychologists in a short time (10 minutes), outpatient conditions or at the bedside. The test was developed for the purpose of short-term cognitive assessment in the elderly, especially in the examination of delirium or dementia.
Loneliness Scale for the Elderly	Forth week	It is a measurement tool developed based on the cognitive behavioral approach. The scale, which has 11 items in total, consists of two sub-dimensions, "Emotional Loneliness" and "Social Loneliness":
General Comfort Scale	Forth week	The levels of the scale, which was formed by taking the taxonomic structure, which includes three levels and four dimensions that constitute the theoretical components of comfort, as a guide; relief (16 items), relief (17 items) and overcoming problems (15 items). Scale dimensions are; physical dimension (12 items), psychospiritual dimension (13 items), environmental dimension (13 items) and sociocultural dimension (10 items).
Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale	Forth week	Scale, Tennant et al. (2007) in order to determine the mental well-being levels of the people of England. The scale is a one-dimensional, 14-item, 5-point Likert scale. Participants respond as "1 = I do not agree at all, 2 = I do not agree, 3 = I agree somewhat, 4 = I agree, 5 = I completely agree).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nursing home; 🇹🇷 Mersin, Turkey