Clinical trial NCT06604403: Effectiveness of Massage Applied to Hemodialysis Patients
Official title: Effect of Massage Applied to Hemodialysis Patients on Comfort Level and Fatigue
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Nurse's Role
Keywords: Massage
Hemodialysis Patients
Nursing
Comfort
Fatigue
Lead sponsor: Ataturk University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-09-19
Enrollment: 58
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study was conducted to determine the effect of massage on comfort and fatigue levels of hemodialysis patients.

Detailed description: Chronic renal failure (CRF) is a health problem that causes significant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The prevalence of the disease is increasing worldwide, especially in developing countries. Hemodialysis (HD) is the most common treatment method for CRF in the world. Approximately 90% of patients with CRF receive HD treatment. Despite advances in technology and medical care due to HD treatment, patients experience many physical and psychosocial symptoms. It is emphasized that comfort is significantly negatively affected in HD patients due to reasons such as the direct impact of HD treatment on the daily and social lives of patients. Increasing the comfort level is important for the patient to continue their daily life activities. In addition, comfort is accepted as the basis of quality nursing care. Increasing the comfort levels of HD patients provides lower comorbidity and mortality rates and improvement in institutional patient outcomes. Fatigue, one of the physical symptoms seen in HD patients, affects 60-95% of patients. Fatigue increases the patients' dependency levels, reduces their physical capabilities, negatively affects the patient and their family economically and reduces their quality of life. Therefore, effective management of fatigue is of great importance for the patient. Despite affecting the patients' lives to this extent, fatigue and discomfort have often been overlooked and neglected symptoms due to their subjective nature. Various pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment methods are used to control fatigue due to CRF or HD and to bring the desired patient comfort. One of the non-pharmacological methods is massage. Massage can be defined as scientific systematic manipulations applied to body tissues in order to affect the locomotor system and nervous system as well as the general circulation. There are studies in the literature where various applications are applied to HD patients to affect fatigue and comfort. However, it is striking that there is no study examining the effect of massage on the comfort and fatigue levels of patients receiving HD treatment. Therefore, the research was planned to examine the effect of massage on the comfort level and fatigue level of HD patients.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Volunteering to participate in the study
* Being 18 years of age or older
* Receiving hemodialysis treatment in a dialysis unit for at least six months
* Not having a condition that prevents verbal communication
* Not having a psychiatric problem

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who left the study at any stage
* Patients who had been receiving hemodialysis treatment for less than 6 months

Primary outcomes:
measure: Hemodialysis Comfort Scale
timeFrame: Up to 4 weeks
measure: Piper Fatigue Scale
timeFrame: Up to 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Erzurum
country: Turkey
facility: Ataturk University
state: Yakutiye
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