Effectiveness of Warm Compresses for the Eyes as a Nursing Technique to Provide Comfort - A Pilot Study Involving Healthy Individuals

Not Applicable

• Conditions: This study targets 50 medical workes (females in their twenties to sixties), who understand its objective and methods, and actively express their desire to participate in it. Those with a favorable health status in the absence of diseases requiring regular medical consultation or medications will be included. While postmenopausal females' participation is not particularly limited, premenopausal females are limited to those with a normal menstrual cycle, who are able to participate in the study within 10 days after the end of their period (hypothermic phase). Warm compresses are expected to be a widely applicable nursing technique to provide patients receiving long-term care with comfort.

• Registration Number: JPRN-UMIN000018409
• Lead Sponsor: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine School of Nursing

Brief Summary

The blood flow and axillary temperature values significantly increased and the LF / HF values and the pulse rates significantly decreased after the use of EM, HEM, or AHEM.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-12-01
• Study Completion: 2022-07-30
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete: follow-up complete
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 42

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Those with inflammation (abnormalities of the eye, such as eye disease, inflammation, a wound, swelling, or eczema of or around the eye), hemorrhage, or irritative symptoms due to pain, for which warm compresses are contraindicated, are not allowed to participate in the study even when meeting the inclusion criteria.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
We evaluate the indexes before and after intervention.Blood pressure, pulse rate, heartbeat change analysis HF,LF/HF (LF:) diastolic as for the physiologic index for the axillary temperature, the shrinkage period blood pressure It is low frequency power and HF:high frequency power ratio), blood velocity.Three times ten minutes after the intervention measure these just after intervention before intervention.The biochemical index is Japanese edition POMS(Profile of Mood States) for saliva amylase, a psychological index.These measure twice ten minutes after the intervention before intervention.