Clinical trial NCT04959214: The Effect Of Progressıve Relaxatıon Exercıses
Official title: The Effect of Progressive Relaxation Exercises Applied to Nurses Working in the Intensive Care Unit on Sleep Quality and Fatigue Severity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Sleep Disturbance
Fatigue
Keywords: Nurse
Progressive Relaxation
Sleep
Intensive Care
Fatigue
Lead sponsor: Cukurova University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-07-13
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of progressive relaxation exercises applied to nurses working in the intensive care unit three times a week for 1 month on sleep quality and severity of fatigue. The research is a pretest-posttest randomized controlled study with an intervention control group.

Detailed description: The Effect of Progressive Relaxation Exercises Applied to Nurses Working in The İntensive Care Unit on Sleep Quality and Fatique İntensity The study was planned to determine the effect of progressive relaxation exercises applied to nurses working in intensive care units on sleep quality and fatigue intensity.

The study will be conducted with a randomized controlled experimental research design in order to evaluate the effect of progressive relaxation exercises applied to nurses working in the intensive care unit on sleep quality and fatigue intensity. This randomized controlled study will be conducted on nurses working in Adana City Training and Research Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Nurses will be divided into 2 groups as experiment and control. It will be carried out on 60 people in total, 30 for the experimental group, 30 for the control group. Progressive relaxation exercises will be applied by nurses for 45 minutes, 3 days a week for an average of 1 month.

The data of the study will be collected after the purpose of the study is explained to the nurses and their verbal and written consents are obtained. In the collection of research data, the Personal Information Form prepared by the researchers and containing the introductory information of the nurses, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Scale PSQI), the Fatigue Severity Scale for fatigue (FSS) will be collected from control and intervention groups through face-to-face interviews.

There are a limited number of studies showing the effects of progressive relaxation exercises applied to intensive care nurses on sleep quality and fatigue intensity in our country. With the study, the use of these exercise programs, which can be easily applied by nurses who work under heavy workloads in the intensive care environment, will increase, and it will be ensured that nurses work more fit and efficiently and are supported in terms of sleep fatigue.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Without a psychiatric diagnosis,
* Having a score of PUKI ≥5 and YŞÖ≥4,
* Nurses who volunteered to participate in the study were included in the research sample.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Experience of working in intensive care for less than 3 months,
* Using antidepressant, antihistamine, diuretic, hypnotic, benzodiazepine, antidepressant, anxiolytic and narcotic analgesics that affect sleep quality,
* Pregnant nurses were not included in the research sample.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Post-application fatigue severity rate of nurses working in the intensive care unit
timeFrame: Scales are filled before starting the application and at the end of the application after 1 month.
measure: Decrease in sleep quality scale scores after the application
timeFrame: Scales are filled before starting the application and at the end of the application after 1 month.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sarıçam
country: Turkey
facility: Cukurova University
state: Adana
Study officials:
affiliation: Cukurova University
name: Songül Karadağ
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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