NCT05679726

The Effect of Foot Reflexology in Intensive Care Nurses

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kafkas University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Fatigue
• Pain
• Stress
• Nurse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	massage	reflexology foot massage

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-30
• Completion: 2023-04-30
• First posted: 2023-01-11
• Last updated: 2023-10-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)