NCT04887103

The Effect of Hot Water Application in Pregnant Women With Restless Legs Syndrome: A Randomised Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: TC Erciyes University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Backgraund and Purpose: The prevalance of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in pregnants varies between 15.4-26.0 percent. As well as pharmacological methods, there are studies reporting that non-pharmacological methods reduce RLS symptoms but the number of studies conducted with pregnants is limited. This study was conducted to determine the effect of hot water application to the legs of pregnants with RLS on their complaints. Materials and methods: The study is a pretest-posttest randomised controlled. Among the pregnants whose IRLS score was more than 11, 13 people to the intervention group and 16 people to the control group were randomised. The data were collected using Personal Information Form, International RLS Study Group Diagnostic Criteria, and the International RLS Rating Scale (IRLS). Hot water application was made of intervention group. The application was made for 20 minutes before bedtime for seven days. No application was made in the control group other than routine care and follow-up. Chi-square test, descriptive statistics and dependent/independent samples t tests were used to assess the data. The value of p\<0.05 was accepted as significant.

Conditions

• Restless Legs Syndrome
• Pregnancy Related

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Hot water application	Pregnant women will apply hot water to their legs before going to sleep for a week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-16
• Primary completion: 2019-04-08
• Completion: 2019-04-08
• First posted: 2021-05-14
• Last updated: 2021-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)