فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

The outcomes of hospitalization anxiety are mental health disorders. One of the methods of anxiety reduction ismassage, which can cause reduction of pain and changes in physiological parameters.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effects of slow-stroke back massage (SSBM) on hospitalization anxiety and physiologicalparameters in school-age children.Methods: This clinical trial study included 80 school-aged children from Ali Ebne Abi Taleb hospital, located in Zahedan, who wereselected using sequential sampling and randomly divided into two groups: a massage group (40) and a control group (40). Datawere collected using a demographic questionnaire and the state-trait anxiety inventory for children (STAIC). Subjects in the massagegroup received SSBM, using sesame oil, for 3 days. Massage was given three times a day, and each massage session lasted for 15 - 20minutes. Physiological parameters and hospitalization anxiety were determined from the second to fifth days. T-test and Chi-squarewere used for analysis data.Results: There was a statistically significant difference (P < 0.05) between the mean of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic bloodpressures (DBP), and pulse rate (PR) in the massage group prior to intervention (97.0520.7, 60.3516.69 and 95.4513.02 respectively)and on the fifth day (88.3216.58, 55.9512.7 and 90.4515.1 respectively). However, no difference was observed in meanrespiratory rate (RR) in the massage group from the second day (17.553.6) to fifth day (17.623.27) (P = 0.096). The mean of stateof anxiety, which was 36.45.1 before intervention, was reduced by the fifth day to 31.25.1 in the massage group (P < 0.0001, t =5.2).Conclusions: The results suggest that massage reduced hospitalization anxiety, PR, and BP. Therefore, we propose that nurses canuse massage to reduce anxiety in school-age children in hospital. This method has no side-effects and is easily applicable.