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Effectiveness of deep breathing exercise to reduce stress among intradialytic patients admitted in tertiary care hospital, Belagavi; Karnataka
Abstract
Background: Chronic renal failure is one of the never-ending medical condition and a progressive loss in kidney function over a period of months of years. Hemodialysis is one of the medical management usually do for CRF patients. Stress is one of the common psychological symptoms experienced by the patients during dialysis. This study focuses on aim to evaluate the effectiveness of deep breathing exercise on reducing stress among intradialytic patients.
Objectives:
1.To find out the level of stress among intradialytic patients by using modified stress scale.
2.To administer deep breathing exercise to the experimental group.
3.To find out the effectiveness of intradialytic deep breathing exercise on stress reduction level.
4.To find out association between intradialytic deep breathing exercise with selected demographic variables.
Materials and methods: A randomized control trial conducted in intradialytic patients in dialysis unit. The study was conducted on a sample of 60 (30 experimental, 30 control). Data was collected by using modified stress scale prior to the procedure then intervention deep breathing exercise was given to experimental group.
Results: The results revealed that paired‘t’ test between pre test stress scores and post test stress scores in experimental group showed that there was significant reduction of stress (p<0.05). Paired ‘t’ test between pre stress scores and post stress scores in control group showed that there was no significant reduction of stress(p>0.05).Unpaired ‘t’ test between post test stress scores in experimental group and post test stress scores in control group revealed that there was significant reduction of stress in experimental group compared to control group(p<0.001).
Conclusion: The results showed that deep breathing exercise is an effective, non invasive and cost effective, non pharmacological method of treatment among intradialytic patients to reduce stress, to increase coping ability and as a relaxation technique
Objectives:
1.To find out the level of stress among intradialytic patients by using modified stress scale.
2.To administer deep breathing exercise to the experimental group.
3.To find out the effectiveness of intradialytic deep breathing exercise on stress reduction level.
4.To find out association between intradialytic deep breathing exercise with selected demographic variables.
Materials and methods: A randomized control trial conducted in intradialytic patients in dialysis unit. The study was conducted on a sample of 60 (30 experimental, 30 control). Data was collected by using modified stress scale prior to the procedure then intervention deep breathing exercise was given to experimental group.
Results: The results revealed that paired‘t’ test between pre test stress scores and post test stress scores in experimental group showed that there was significant reduction of stress (p<0.05). Paired ‘t’ test between pre stress scores and post stress scores in control group showed that there was no significant reduction of stress(p>0.05).Unpaired ‘t’ test between post test stress scores in experimental group and post test stress scores in control group revealed that there was significant reduction of stress in experimental group compared to control group(p<0.001).
Conclusion: The results showed that deep breathing exercise is an effective, non invasive and cost effective, non pharmacological method of treatment among intradialytic patients to reduce stress, to increase coping ability and as a relaxation technique
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijcn.v1i2.216
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