Arun Raj, M (2014) A study to assess the effectiveness of hand and foot massage on pain among patients with Abdominal Surgery in Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital at Erode. Masters thesis, Nandha College of Nursing, Erode.
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Abstract
“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HAND AND FOOT MASSAGE ON PAIN AMONG PATIENTS WITH ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN KOVAI MEDICAL CENTRE AND HOSPITAL AT ERODE.” OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the level of pain before and after hand and foot massage among the patients with abdominal surgery in Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital at Erode. 2. To implement and evaluate the effectiveness of hand and foot massage on pain among patients with abdominal surgery. 3. To find out the association between pain of the patients with abdominal surgery and selected demographical variables such as age, sex, education, occupation, income, residence, weight and previous history of surgery. HYPOTHESES: The following hypotheses will be tested at0.05 level of significance. H1: There will be a significant reduction in the pain score among post-operative patients with abdominal surgery after the hand and foot massage. H2: There will be a significant association between patient’s pain with abdominal surgery and selected demographic variables such as age, sex, education, occupation, income, residence, weight and previous history of surgery. METHODOLOGY: The research approach used for this study was Quantitative implementive and evaluative approach and the research design was quasi-experimental design. 60 patients with abdominal surgery were selected for this study by using purposive sampling technique. Data were collected with the help of Visual Analogue scale. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi-square, paired‘t’ test, unpaired‘t’ test) were used to analyze the data and to test hypothesis. RESULT AND INTERPRETATION : The following were the result of the study: ❖ Mean difference between pre-test and post-test score of pain. ❖ Mean difference between post-test score of pain in control and experimental group was significant at 0.05 level ❖ There was a significant association between the post-test score of pain in control group with Residence and Previous history of surgery (P< 0.05). ❖ There was a significant association between the post-test score of pain in experimental group with the Previous history of surgery. (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The following conclusions were drawn from the study, ❖ Study results have shown patients after abdominal surgery develops moderate to severe pain. ❖ Hand and Foot massage was effective in reducing the pain after abdominal surgery. ❖ So Nurses can use this intervention as a complementary therapy to reduce pain after abdominal surgery without any side effects, and take further steps in prevention of complication caused by pain after abdominal surgery.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | Reg.No.30111112 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Abdominal surgery, hand and foot massage, pain. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Medical Surgical Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2017 09:43 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2020 12:04 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/1313 |
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