Amudha, G (2014) Assess the effectiveness of hot water compress with Epsom salt among elderly women with knee joint pain residing at selected urban area Choolai in Chennai. Masters thesis, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai.
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Abstract
Knee joint pain is one of the most common aliment for elderly people for which the clients visit the outpatient department. Epsom salt compress is a household item. This Epsom salt has the power to relieve muscle aches when applied externally. This study focuses on the effectiveness of hot water compress with Epsom salt in relieving knee joint pain among elderly women in urban areas, Chennai. The objectives of the study were to assess the pre assessment and post assessment, pain level of clients with knee joint pain in experimental and control group, to identify the effectiveness of hot water compress with Epsom salt on knee joint pain levels in experimental and control group, and to associate the findings with the demographic variables. For the experimental study design was adopted. 60 samples with knee joint pain were selected by the simple random sampling method. The pain level was checked using the numerical pain rating scale. The clients in the experimental group were given hot water compress with Epsom salt for ten days continuously and the control group followed their routine intervention and data was collected using questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The clients in the experimental group58% of reduction in pain levels as compared to the clients in the control group who had 3% of pain reduction. People today rely on pharmacological intervention to relieve pain, it has side effects. If we use hot water compress with Epsom salt to relieve muscle pain which has been proved in this study, it will be economical, culturally accepted, it can be practiced safely at home and it has less side effect as compared to pharmacological intervention.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | (Reg.No.301226152) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | effectiveness ; hot water compress ; Epsom salt ; elderly women ; knee joint pain ; urban area ; Choolai ; Chennai. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Community Health Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2018 15:26 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2018 15:28 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/9556 |
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