Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Perceived Stress and Comfort Levels in Hemodialysis Patients

NCT ID: NCT07061353

Last Updated: 2025-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-12-31
• Study Completion Date: 2026-06-01

Brief Summary

Hemodialysis is a treatment method used in the treatment of acute or chronic renal failure, the main function of which is based on the cleaning of accumulated waste materials in the blood, and is rapidly developing and spreading in parallel with today's technology. Patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment are trying to cope with social and physical problems that may develop due to chronic disease. At the same time, their quality of life is affected due to the psychosocial, economic problems and complications brought about by machine dependency. From past to present, individuals have used various methods to protect/improve their health. Today, in addition to modern medicine, complementary/alternative therapies are increasingly used. One of these alternative therapies is the therapeutic touch application, which has recently gained popularity. Therapeutic touch is based on the therapeutic effect of the act of touching. Therapeutic touch, alternatively known as healing touch, is a complementary/alternative treatment method applied by touching energy points in the body. Therefore, this study was planned to examine the effect of therapeutic touch applied to hemodialysis patients on perceived stress and comfort levels. This study, planned as a randomized experimental study with a pre-test-post-test intervention control group, will be a study on dialysis patients receiving treatment at the hemodialysis unit of Fırat University Hospital between June 2025-June 2026. The sample will consist of a minimum of 60 dialysis patients (30 intervention, 30 control) who meet the research criteria and accept the study. The patients in the intervention and control groups will first be informed about the application before starting the application and their verbal and written consents will be obtained. Then, the Patient Identification Form, Visual Analog Scale-Comfort (VAS-Comfort), Hemodialysis Comfort Scale (HKS) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) will be applied and the 1st measurement will be obtained. The application will last approximately 15-30 minutes for the patients in the intervention group every three days. After three days of alternate application, data forms will be filled in again for patients and 2nd measurements will be obtained. During this period, no intervention will be made to patients in the control group and only the normal treatment protocol will be applied. At the end of three days, data forms will be filled in again and 2nd measurements will be obtained. In the analysis of data; frequency and percentage analyses, chi-square analysis, standard deviation, t-test in dependent groups, t-test analysis in independent groups will be performed.

Conditions

Therapeutic Touch; Hemodialysis Patients

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic Touch group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Therapeutic touch

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Therapeutic touch will be performed

Control

No therapeutic touch group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch will be performed

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• At least 3 months of hemodialysis treatment • Cognitive function is in place

Exclusion Criteria

• Those with communication problems
• Those who do not agree to participate in the study
• Patients who receive traditional treatment for the disease

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Firat University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Fırat university

Elâzığ, Center, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan

Role: CONTACT

glcnbah@hotmail.com

05065576086

Eda Doğan

Role: CONTACT

0534 014 2159

Other Identifiers

2025/08-02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id