NCT04515381

Title: Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Daytime Sleepiness, Stress and Fatigue

Mardin Artuklu University Of Scientific Research Projects

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mardin Artuklu University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Objective: This study was conducted to assess the effect of therapeutic touch on stress, daytime sleepiness, sleep quality and fatigue among the students of nursing and midwifery. Design: Randomized placebo-controlled study.

Detailed description

The trial was conducted between April and July 2018. The students who met the inclusion criteria were separated into three groups through randomization method as in therapeutic touch (n=32), placebo (n=32) and control (n=32), and a total of 96 students participated in the study. In this randomized placebo controlled study, the therapeutic touch group were subjected to therapeutic touch for twice a week throughout 4 weeks with each session of 20 minutes. The data was acquired via Student Information Form, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Pittburgh Sleep Quality Index, Perceived Stress Scale and Visual Analogue Scale for Fatigue.

Conditions

• Stress
• Fatigue
• Sleepiness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Therapeutic Touch	Therapeutic Touch
OTHER	Control group	Making measurements at the beginning of the research and 4 weeks
OTHER	Sham Therapeutic Touch	Sham Therapeutic Touch

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-20
• Primary completion: 2018-05-01
• Completion: 2018-06-15
• First posted: 2020-08-17
• Last updated: 2020-08-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)