The Effect of Hand Reflexology on Pain, Skin Temperature and Nursing Practice

Ha, Hyae-Chung; Lee, Young-Soon; Kim, Dong-Soo; Lee, Myung-Sook; Oh, Sei-Young

The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2006;12(2):178-186.
Published online December 31, 2006.

Ha, Hyae-Chung;Lee, Young-Soon;Kim, Dong-Soo;Lee, Myung-Sook;Oh, Sei-Young;

¹Seoul Women's College of Nursing
²Seoul Veterans Hospital
³Seoul Veterans Hospital
⁴Seoul Veterans Hospital
⁵Seoul Women's College of Nursing

입원 환자에서 손 반사요법의 통증, 피부체온 및 간호실무 효과

하혜정, 이영순, 김동수, 이명숙, 오세영

¹서울여자간호대학
²서울보훈병원 간호부
³서울보훈병원
⁴서울보훈병원
⁵서울여자간호대학

Abstract

Purpose
This study is aimed to examine the effectiveness on pain, feeling and nursing practice of hand reflexology applied to in-patient in the clinical setting. Method: The pre/post test methods using VAS for pain and feeling, physiologic measuring, and questionnaire of nursing care were conducted. Subjects were selected 45 in-patients from a surgical ward in hospitals during Nov.-Dec. 2005. 5 minute hand reflexology therapy was applied to both hands of participant by two research assistants at the same time. Data were analyzed based on SAS program using frequency, $x^2$-test, paired t-test, ANOVA and Pearson's correlation coefficients. Result: 1. After receiving hand reflexology therapy, the subjects showed significant pain relief(t=-4.94, p=.0001), improvement in feeling(t=19.44, p=0001) and an increase in skin temperature(t=3.54, p=.001). 2. The applied skills that the participants preferred were press-rotate(80.0%), press-walk(35.56%) and press-rolling(31.11%). The effectiveness of nursing practice scored $3.99{pm}1.97$ out of 5. Nurse-Patient Relationship and effective response of nursing intervention ranked the highest 4.31. Conclusion: Hand reflexology was considered as an effective nursing intervention in the clinical settings, but in order to evaluate re-verifies and reliances for this effects, it is necessary that comparative studies should be conducted.

Key Words: Reflexology, Pain, Skin temperature, Nursing