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Effect of Hot Footbath on the Sleep Quality

NCT04703530 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2021-01-11

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Summary

The research title is the effect of hot footbath on the sleep quality of patients with chronic schizophrenia. The research was a randomized controlled trial. The setting was the chronic inpatient wards at a psychiatric teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan. A total of 63 participants, 30 in the hot footbath group and 33 in the control group, were completed the study from November 2019 to June 2020. Participants were randomly allocated to the experimental group and the control group. Through this method, we explored whether the trial could effectively improve patients' sleep quality.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

hot footbath

The experimental group was given a hot footbath with a temperature of 41℃±1℃ for 20 minutes at about 1-2 hours before sleep

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Xuan-Yi Huang, DNSc · National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-01
Primary Completion
2020-01-04
Completion
2020-07-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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