{"title":"The Effect of Back Massage Applied to Palliative Care Patients on Sleep Quality and Pain","authors":"Hilal DURMAZ, Sevil PAMUK CEBECİ","doi":"10.20515/otd.1361722","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Aim: The study was conducted to examine the effect of back massage applied to palliative care patients on sleep quality and pain.
 
 Methods: The study was conducted among patients receiving inpatient treatment in the palliative care service of a hospital in Bilecik, Turkey, between November 2021 and April 2022. It was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pretest-posttest control group design. The sample consisted of a total of 52 volunteer patients, 26 experimental and 26 control. Patient Diagnosis Form, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, McGill Pain Scale-Short Form were used to collect data. Statistical significance level was accepted as p","PeriodicalId":485255,"journal":{"name":"Osmangazi tıp dergisi","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Osmangazi tıp dergisi","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20515/otd.1361722","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Aim: The study was conducted to examine the effect of back massage applied to palliative care patients on sleep quality and pain.
Methods: The study was conducted among patients receiving inpatient treatment in the palliative care service of a hospital in Bilecik, Turkey, between November 2021 and April 2022. It was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pretest-posttest control group design. The sample consisted of a total of 52 volunteer patients, 26 experimental and 26 control. Patient Diagnosis Form, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, McGill Pain Scale-Short Form were used to collect data. Statistical significance level was accepted as p