Effect of Abdominal Massage on Patients in Intensive Care Unit

NCT ID: NCT06950580

Last Updated: 2025-04-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 128 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-05-31
• Study Completion Date: 2026-02-28

Brief Summary

Bowel motility can be affected by many factors such as immobilization, lack of fiber in the nutritional formula, inadequate fluid intake, and lack of privacy for toileting in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Abdominal massage, which is one of the effective methods to increase intestinal motility, is accepted as an intervention that can be safely applied in patients.

The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of abdominal massage applied to patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care unit, amount and duration of antibiotic use.

Hypotheses H0: Abdominal massage application has no effect on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care unit, amount and duration of antibiotic use in patients hospitalized in intensive care unit.

H1: Abdominal massage application has an effect on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care unit, amount and duration of antibiotic use in patients hospitalized in intensive care unit.

In this randomized controlled study, the data of patients who received abdominal massage for 5 days during routine physiotherapy applications and those who did not will be recorded. Randomization will be performed in a 1:1 ratio using a computer generated randomization schedule. The effect of abdominal massage on sepsis, survival, discharge time from intensive care, amount and duration of antibiotic use will be examined by using the data of 2 groups with and without abdominal massage in a randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

Intensive Care Unit Patients; Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation; Abdominal Massage

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Abdominal Massage Group

In addition to routine physiotherapy, patients will receive abdominal massage daily for 5 days.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

abdominal massage

Intervention Type: OTHER

In addition to routine physiotherapy, abdominal massage will be applied by the physiotherapist. The patient is positioned supine. The abdominal muscles are stroked three times, followed by colon stroking performed three times, and colon kneading performed three times. The massage is concluded by repeating the colon and abdominal stroking techniques in the same manner. Patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit will routinely receive abdominal massage twice daily by the physiotherapist

Control Group

Routine physiotherapy will be continued for patients in this group.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

abdominal massage

In addition to routine physiotherapy, abdominal massage will be applied by the physiotherapist. The patient is positioned supine. The abdominal muscles are stroked three times, followed by colon stroking performed three times, and colon kneading performed three times. The massage is concluded by repeating the colon and abdominal stroking techniques in the same manner. Patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit will routinely receive abdominal massage twice daily by the physiotherapist

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients aged between 18 to 80 years
• Patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit for more than 3 days
• Body Mass Index less than 30 kg/m²
• Patients who are not mobilized out of bed
• Patients without any intervention contraindicating abdominal massage

Exclusion Criteria

• History of abdominal surgery
• Active gastrointestinal bleeding
• Patients discharged from ICU within less than 5 days after enrollment

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Karadeniz Technical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

A. Oguzhan KUCUK

MD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

2025/10

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id