| บทคัดย่อ(English) |
The purpose of this experimental research was to study the effect of symptom managementcombined with Thai traditional massage. The sample was 40 patients receiving hemodialysis twiceper week, at the Hemodialysis Unit, Kidney Foundation of Thailand, GalyaniValthana building,Priests Hospital, which were matched into 20 pairs considering age and education as theselected variables. Then the subjects were randomly assigned into one experimental group andone control group. The experimental group received nursing care according to symptom managementconcept combined with Thai Traditional massage, while the control group received rountinenursing care. Research instruments were a health teaching plan with a patient manual which weretested for content validity by experts. Fatigue Questionnaire according to Piper et al. (1998)was used in data gathering process. The reliability of this questionnaire (Cronbach's alphacoefficient) was .93. Descriptive statistics and t-test were used in data analysis. Major research findings were as follows : 1. The fatigue of end stage renal failure patients receiving hemodialysis in experimental groupafter receiving nursing care according to symptom management concept combined with Thaitraditional massage was significantly lower than before experiment, at the .05 level. 2. After the experiment the fatigue of end stage renal failure patients receiving hemodialysisin the experimental group was significantly lower than that of the patients in the controlgroup. |
