Effects of Tactile Massage in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Conditions
- Loneliness
- Interventions
- Other: Tactile massage
- Registration Number
- NCT05052138
- Lead Sponsor
- Taipei Medical University
- Brief Summary
The older residents in the long-term care facilities frequently experience loneliness, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Improving residents' psychological health problems is one of the important tasks for nursing staff. Individual experiences a sense of security and feels of being cared for after tactile massage (TM).The randomized controlled trial research design and convenience sampling will be employed. Through skin-to-skin contact, the oxytocin can be induced to make individual feel relaxed, reduce anxiety, and feel pleasure. The randomized controlled trial research design and convenience sampling will be employed. The eligible residents will be randomly assigned to intervention group and comparison group (usual care). The intervention group will receive two 15-min tactile massages per week for 4 weeks. The comparison group will receive regular care and activities.
- Detailed Description
The older residents in the long-term care facilities frequently experience loneliness, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. The negative emotions might affect residents' quality of life and even increase their mortality. Improving residents' psychological health problems is one of the important tasks for nursing staff. Individual experiences a sense of security and feels of being cared for after tactile massage (TM). Through skin-to-skin contact, the oxytocin can be induced to make individual feel relaxed, reduce anxiety, and feel pleasure. Moreover, TM does not need any tools and can be conducted at any time and any place. It is very convenient and accessible. Therefore, the purpose of this study is going to examine the effects of tactile massage in improving older residents' mental health and physiological effect in LTCFs. The randomized controlled trial research design and convenience sampling will be employed. LTCFs will be selected and contacted by researchers. The eligible residents will be randomly assigned to intervention group and comparison group (usual care). The intervention group will receive two 15-min tactile massages per week for 4 weeks. The comparison group will receive regular care and activities. Data will be collected at baseline, after intervention using questionnaires including demographic and related information questionnaire, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) loneliness Scale version 3, Geriatric Anxiety Inventory, Geriatric Depression Scale short form (GDS-SF).Chinese Happiness Inventory, comfort Visual Analogue Scale, Relaxed Visual Analogue Scale, and vital signs. Data analysis will be conducted by performing percentage, mean, t-test, chi-square, and generalized estimating equations (GEE) using SPSS 22.0 software. Intention-to-treat analysis will be applied in this study.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 73
- have lived in long-term care facilities for over one month
- conscious clear and can clearly express him or herself.
- infection disease and skin problems
- psychiatric disorders
- loss sense of both hands.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Tactile massage Tactile massage Tactile massage 1 will receivetwo 15-min tactile massages (hand massage) per week for 4 weeks
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)loneliness Scale version 3 after the completion of the intervention(T1) A 20-item scale designed to measure one's subjective feelings of loneliness as well as feelings of social isolation. Participants rate each item on a scale from 1 (Never) to 4 (Often). The total score ranged 20\~80 points, with a higher score indicating high level of loneliness
Geriatric Depression Scale short form (GDS-SF) after the completion of the intervention(T1) The Geriatric Depression Scale is a 15-item "yes/no" self-report measure of depressive symptom.The individual is asked to report whether they have experienced these symptoms over the past week. The Geriatric Depression Scale has a maximum score of 15, with higher scores representing more severe symptoms.
heart rate(HR) after the completion of the intervention(T4) measure heart rate, simply check pulse. To check your pulse at your wrist, two fingers between the bone and the tendon over your radial artery . ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute.
breathing rate(RR) after the completion of the intervention(T4) The respiration rate is the number of breaths a person takes per minute. The rate is usually measured when a person is at rest and simply involves counting the number of breaths for one minute by counting how many times the chest rises. The normal respiration rate for an adult at rest is 12 to 20 breaths per minute.
body temperature(BT) after the completion of the intervention(T4) body temperature use ear thermometer measure temperature，normal body temperature can range between 36.1 C and 37.2 C .
Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) after the completion of the intervention(T1) The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory is a 20-item "yes/no" self-report measure of Anxiety symptom.The individual is asked to report whether they have experienced these symptoms over the past week. The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory has a maximum score of 20, with higher scores representing more severe symptoms.
blood pressure(BP) after the completion of the intervention(T4) Upper Arm blood pressure monitor measure, blood pressure is considered to be between 90/60 mmHg and 120/80 mmHg
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Chinese Happiness Inventory after the completion of the intervention(T1) A 10-item scale designed to measure one's subjective feelings of Happiness . Participants rate each item on a scale from 0 to 3. The total score ranged 0\~30 points, with a higher score indicating high level of happy
Relaxed Visual Analogue Scale after the completion of the intervention(T4) providing a range of scores from 0-10. A higher score indicates greater Relaxed intensity
comfort Visual Analogue Scale after the completion of the intervention(T4) providing a range of scores from 0-10. A higher score indicates greater comfort intensity
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Suao Veterans Hospital
🇨🇳Tainan, Yilan, Taiwan
Tung Jen Hospital
🇨🇳Taipei, Taiwan