The Effect of Foot Reflexology in Intensive Care Nurses

Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Foot Reflexology on Stress, Fatigue and Low Back Pain in Intensive Care Nurses

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05679726
• Other study ID #: kafkasU-80576354
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: Kafkas University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental research design to examine the effect of foot reflexology applied to nurses working in the intensive care unit on stress, fatigue and low back pain.

Description:

The universe of the research consisted of a total of 90 nurses working in a university and a public hospital in a city. Among the nurses, those who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study will form the sample. Assignment to the intervention and control group will be determined in the computer environment using a simple randomization method (www.randomizer.org/). The number of samples was determined using power analysis. It was decided to recruit a total of 42 nurses, 21 for each group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• -Intensive care unit nurse
• Those aged 18 to 65 years
• Working in intensive care for at least 6 months
• Back pain for at least 3 months
• Not pregnant, non-breastfeeding
• Having a regular menstrual cycle
• Vascular disease and foot fracture, wound, scar, skin damage etc. no situation
• Volunteered to participate in the research
• Not using antidepressants, sleeping pills, etc.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Working in intensive care for less than 6 months
• No chronic low back pain
• Pregnant, lactating
• Do not have a regular menstrual cycle
• Vascular disease and foot fracture, wound, scar, skin damage etc. situation found
• Using antidepressants, sleeping pills, etc.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fatigue
• Nurse
• Pain
• Stress

Intervention

Behavioral:
• massage
reflexology foot massage

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Ayse Gül Parlak	Kars

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kafkas University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	pain severity	measurement of nurses' low back pain severity score; A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is one of the pain rating scales. VAS pain score is evaluated as "painless" (score=0) and "worst pain" (score=10).; score <3 mild pain, 3-6 mild-to-moderate pain, and >6 moderate-to-severe pain	pre test
Primary	fatique	The fatigue severity scale There are 9 questions in the scale and each question consists of 7 points. An increase in the scale score indicates an increase in the level of fatigue. The scale determines the fatigue status of individuals in the last 1 month. Questions are scored as I totally disagree (1)- I totally agree. If the average score is 5 and above, it is considered as "fatigue".	pre test
Primary	stress	Perceived Stress Scale ; There are 14 items in the scale, which was developed as a five-point Likert-type rating scale. The scale consists of "never (0), almost never" (1), "sometimes" (2), "often" (3) "very often" (4). The lowest and highest scores a participant can obtain from this scale are 0 and 56, respectively.	pre test
Secondary	pain severity	measurement of nurses' low back pain severity score; A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is one of the pain rating scales. VAS pain score is evaluated as "painless" (score=0) and "worst pain" (score=10).; score <3 mild pain, 3-6 mild-to-moderate pain, and >6 moderate-to-severe pain	post test(at the end of the 4th week)
Secondary	fatique	The fatigue severity scale There are 9 questions in the scale and each question consists of 7 points. An increase in the scale score indicates an increase in the level of fatigue. The scale determines the fatigue status of individuals in the last 1 month. Questions are scored as I totally disagree (1)- I totally agree. If the average score is 5 and above, it is considered as "fatigue".	post test (at the end of the 4th week)
Secondary	stress	Perceived Stress Scale ; There are 14 items in the scale, which was developed as a five-point Likert-type rating scale. The scale consists of "never (0), almost never" (1), "sometimes" (2), "often" (3) "very often" (4). The lowest and highest scores a participant can obtain from this scale are 0 and 56, respectively.	post test(at the end of the 4th week)