Clinical trial NCT04861753: The Effects of Reiki and Back Massage on the Pain and Vital Signs
Official title: The Effects of Reiki and Back Massage on the Pain and Vital Signs of Women After Abdominal Hysterectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Pain
Abdominal Pain
Keywords: Back massage
Hysterectomy
Pain
Reiki
Lead sponsor: Mardin Artuklu University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-04-27
Enrollment: 102
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Open abdominal hysterectomy is usually performed in clinics on a planned basis. Patients undergoing open abdominal hysterectomy are hospitalized over 1-2 days before the surgery and they are discharged on the postoperative 3 rd day if there is no postoperative complication. Routine analgesics and antibiotics are given to all patients in the postoperative period.

Brief summary: The practice of Reiki and back massage applications in support of pharmacological treatment is among the nursing initiatives and these practices increase the autonomy of the profession. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of Reiki and back massage on pain, analgesic use and vital signs in women who had undergone open abdominal hysterectomy. This was an experimental study with a single, blinded, pretest-posttest control group. The population of the study consisted of women who had abdominal hysterectomy in the Obstetrics Clinics at Gazi Yasargil Training and Research Hospital and Dicle University Hospital between July 2017 and February 2018. The patients were divided into three groups: Reiki, back massage and control, with 34 patients in each group. Reiki or back massage were applied for 20 minutes once a day to the patients in the Reiki and back massage groups.

Detailed description: The study was carried out to determine the effect of Reiki and back massage application on pain, analgesic use and vital signs in women underwent open abdominal hysterectomy. This study used an experimental pretest and posttest design with two experimental groups (Reiki and back massage), and a control group. The population of the study consisted of women who underwent abdominal hysterectomy in the Obstetrics Clinics of the Gazi Training and Research Hospital and Dicle University Hospital between July 2017 and February 2018. Open abdominal hysterectomy is usually performed in clinics on a planned basis.The data were collected by the researcher in the clinic by the face-to-face interview method using the Patient Information Form, the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS), and the Vital Signs and Postoperative Analgesic Follow-up Form.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients who underwent surgery in elective conditions,
* were hospitalized for at least two days after surgery,
* did not develop any serious complications after surgery,
* were operated on under general anesthesia,
* had no previous Reiki or back massage,
* had a pain level of 3 or above according to the Numeric Pain Rating Scale,
* had no cognitive, affective or communication problems,
* used only one type of analgesic (a non-narcotic analgesic)
* did not use patient-controlled analgesics.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with chronic disease (such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease),
* severe complications after surgery (such as bleeding, infection),
* those who were taking narcotic analgesics.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)
timeFrame: 1st postoperative days
measure: Vital Signs and Postoperative Analgesic Follow-up Form (VSPAFF)
timeFrame: 1st postoperative days
measure: Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)
timeFrame: 2 nd postoperative days
measure: Vital Signs and Postoperative Analgesic Follow-up Form (VSPAFF)
timeFrame: 2 nd postoperative days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mardin
country: Turkey
facility: Hediye Utli
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