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Effect of baby oil on pruritus, sleep quality, and quality of life in hemodialysis patients: Pretest–post‐test model with control groups
Author(s) -
Karadag Ezgi,
Kilic Serap Parlar,
Karatay Gülnaz,
Metin Ozgur
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
japan journal of nursing science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.363
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1742-7924
pISSN - 1742-7932
DOI - 10.1111/jjns.12019
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , intervention (counseling) , sleep quality , hemodialysis , repeated measures design , life quality , test (biology) , physical therapy , pediatrics , psychiatry , nursing , insomnia , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Aim To assess the effect of baby oil on pruritus, sleep quality, and quality of life in hemodialysis ( HD ) patients. Methods This pretest–post‐test model with control groups study was conducted in HD units in two different provinces in eastern T urkey. The study group consisted of a total of 70 patients receiving HD treatment who met the inclusion criteria, 35 being in the intervention group and 35 in the control group. After the patients in both groups were informed about the study, they were administered a questionnaire, the S everity S cale, V isual A nalog S cale, the P ittsburgh S leep Q uality I ndex, and the SF ‐36 Quality of Life Scale. Following the administration of baby oil to the patients in the intervention group three times a week for a period of 1 month, the same scales were repeated to explore their pruritic status, sleep quality, and quality of life. The same scales were repeated also for the patients in the control group 1 month later but without administering any baby oil. Results When the I tch S everity S cale, V isual A nalog S cale, P ittsburgh S leep Q uality I ndex, and SF ‐36 Quality of Life Physical and Mental Component scores of the patients in the control and intervention groups before and after the intervention were compared, the differences in the change were found to be statistically significant in favor of the intervention group ( P < 0.05). Conclusion It was found in this study that administration of baby oil had positive effects on itching, quality of life, and sleep quality in HD patients who had itching complaints.